Starring Madame Modjeska - On Tour in Poland and America

Informationen zum Autor Beth Holmgren is Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies and Theater Studies at Duke University. She is author of Women's Works in Stalin's Time (IUP, 1993), editor (with Helena Goscilo) of Poles Apart: Women in Modern Polish Culture and Russia . Women . Culture (IUP, 1996), and translator and editor (with Helena Goscilo) of The Keys to Happiness by Anastasya Verbitskaya (IUP, 1999). Klappentext Starring Madame Modjeska traces Modjeska's fabulous life and career from her illegitimate birth in Krakow, to her successive reinventions of herself as a star in both Poland and America, and finally to her enduring legacy. Zusammenfassung Details the extraordinary life & times of actress Helena Modjeska Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Timeline of Modjeska's Life and Career 1. Debut 2. The Making of a Polish Actress 3. Warsaw's State of the Stars 4. A Colonial Party and the California Dream 5. On the American Road 6. The Roles of Madame Modjeska 7. The Polish Modjeska 8. Farewell Tour Epilogue: Finding Modjeska Today Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Beth Holmgren, Holmgren Beth
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.11.2011
• EAN: 9780253356642
• ISBN: 978-0-253-35664-2
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: Indiana University Press
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet