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An Evidence of Modernity: Eleonora Duse's Library

2010

Even though Eleonora Duse (1858-1924) referred to her books as her own artistic wardrobe, her most highly-valued possessions, scholars and biographers have insisted on neglecting her library and, what’s more, it had for years been considered lost forever. In this article Anna Sica explains the value of the founding of the Murray Edwards Eleonora Duse Collection in Cambridge. She specifically refers to a selection of books which have been renamed ‘Cleopatra’s Books’. They are remarkable examples which are representative of Duse’s library as a whole and lay bare the roots of Duse’s intellectual evolution. Many have believed the romantic notion that Duse acted out her own personal life on stag…

Settore L-ART/05 - Discipline Dello SpettacoloCambridge Duse
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Il metodo italiano che ispirò Stanislavskij

2017

Kostantin Sergei Stanislasvkij segna l’inizio della grande tradizione della regia del Novecento. Le sue regie emergono da un sistema di recitazione fondato sull’immedesimazione e la memoria emotiva. Si registra però nella tradizione ottocentesca del grande attore italiano una recitazione che seppure appariva generata da una creazione individuale, in realtà sottostava alle regole di una forma codificata di voci e gesti appostiti, quella della drammatica-metodo italiano. Documenti diretti e indiretti ci confermano come Stanislavskij abbia elaborato il suo sistema di reviviscenza nel tentativo di emulare la grande spontaneità dei grandi attori italiani. Il ritrovamento e la successiva ricompos…

Stanislavskij metodo DuseSettore L-ART/05 - Discipline Dello Spettacolo
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What did Stanislavsky see watching Eleonora Duse's Acting

2013

Performances like those Eleonora Duse’s led James Joyce to comment that the Italians had an immense genius for the theatre. He said that on stage, they were undoubtedly the greatest actors in existence. What is more, Stanislavsky was so inspired by Eleonora Duse’s acting that he formed his system, with the aim of matching her absorbing and exquisitely sympathetic acting. In particular, Stanislavsky was profoundly attracted by the simplicity of her acting. But it did not emerge from a natural status or attitude, as many have believed. As we now know that it came from the perfect execution of the drammatica.

Stanislavsky Duse TheatreSettore L-ART/05 - Discipline Dello Spettacolo
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The Italian Method of la drammatica: its Legacy and Reception

2014

The volume The Italian Method of la drammatica: its Legacy and Reception includes the long and complex investigation to identify the Italian acting-code system of the drammatica used by nineteenth-century Italian actors such as Adelaide Ristori Giovanni Grasso Tommaso Salvini Eleonora Duse. In particular their acting inspired Stanislavky who reformed twentieth-century stage. The declamatory code of the drammatica was composed by symbols for notation of voice and gesture which Italian actors marked in their prompt-books. The discovery of the drammatica’s code sheds new light on nineteenth-century acting. Having deciphered the phonetic symbols of the code Anna Sica has given birth an investigation with a group of outstanding scholars in an attempt to explore the drammatica’s legacy and its reception in Europe as well as in Asia. At this stage new evidence has emerged proving that for instance the symbol used by the drammatica actors to sign the colorito vocale was known to English actors in the second half of the nineteenth century. By noting how Adelaide Ristori passed on her art to Irving’s actress Genevieve Ward and how Stanislavsky almost aflame moulded his system from Duse’s acting an unexplored variety in the reception of the drammatica’s legacy is revealed.Settore L-ART/05 - Discipline Dello Spettacolo
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Eleonora Duse Tragica Sapiente

2009

Il saggio analizza la seducente icona di Eleonora Duse, attrice dalla genialità sfrenata, e mette in luce, per la prima volta, che la recitazione dell’attrice, unica nel cancellare i confini tra finzione e realtà, si fondava sull’impareggiabile destrezza che l’attrice possedeva nell’adoperare mimica e declamazione. Il confronto tra i copioni, i carteggi e i marginalia, ritrovati da Anna Sica, entro il corpus dei suoi libri a Cambridge, fa emergere la natura dotta della sua recitazione, alimentata incessantemente dalla sua smania di cultura e di tecniche declamatorie. I libri di Eleonora Duse sono stati da sempre considerati perduti da teatrologi e biografi della grande attrice. Ma il loro r…

Tragica recitazione DuseSettore L-ART/05 - Discipline Dello Spettacolo
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D’amore e d'arte. Le lettere a Eleonora Duse di Aleksandr Volkov nel lascito Thun-Salm e Thun-Hohenstein

2021

Aleksandr Volkov's letters to Eleonora Duse - almost completely neglected for more than ninety years - tell us Duse’s relationship with Volkov, i.e. between Lenor and Alex: a liaison that was fed on art and life, as well as on ordinary and extraordinary facts of history. The correspondence is composed of 303 letters, telegrams and notes written by Volkov to Duse in 1891 and 1892. We have not the letters that Lenor sent to Alex, but some fragments of them have been preserved, cited by Volkov in his letters. Moreover, some actress’s notes are still legible in the margin of some of Volkov’s letters and telegrams. If we combine them with the copious documentation on the actress which is extensi…

Volkov Duse Theatre ActingSettore L-ART/05 - Discipline Dello Spettacolo
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