03190nam 2200589Ia 450 991045184660332120200520144314.094-012-0382-21-4294-8085-810.1163/9789401203821(CKB)1000000000475287(EBL)556516(OCoLC)165099062(SSID)ssj0000197798(PQKBManifestationID)12023975(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000197798(PQKBWorkID)10161218(PQKB)11278507(MiAaPQ)EBC556516(OCoLC)165099062(OCoLC)712988545(OCoLC)764535948(OCoLC)961522648(OCoLC)962565892(nllekb)BRILL9789401203821(Au-PeEL)EBL556516(CaPaEBR)ebr10380209(EXLCZ)99100000000047528720070406d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMarie Dorval[electronic resource] France's theatrical wonder : a book for actors /Bettina KnappAmsterdam ;New York, NY Rodopi20071 online resource (235 p.)Chiasma ;21Description based upon print version of record.90-420-2132-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-234).Preliminary Material -- FOREWORD -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6: “MAKE ME A BABY SHE CRIED OUT IN A STATE OF DELIRIUM” -- CHAPTER 7 -- CHAPTER 8 -- CHAPTER 9 -- CHAPTER 10 -- CHAPTER 11 -- CHAPTER 12 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.To trace the life of Marie Dorval through the turbulences and exhilarations of her epoch is to engage not just with the genesis and the full flowering of a rare theatrical genius but also with the teeming literary, emotional, economic and material dramas in which such a genius is implacably embroiled. Dumas, Vigny, Hugo, Sand, Gautier and many others mingle their creative and affective energies with Dorval’s in a ceaseless dynamic interplay. But to read Bettina Knapp’s exceptional story is to realize too the so easily overlooked backcloth to life in Marie Dorval’s times: poverty, the need to will one’s survival, unimaginably trying circumstances in which theatre is performed, whether in the provinces or in Paris. And the account that follows further seeks, upon this at once intimate and societal canvas, to give us some real insight into the uniqueness of Dorval’s acting techniques, simultaneously instinctive, viscerally natural, and learned, studied, though more from life than instruction. A book for actors, indeed; but a book, too, for lovers of the theatre and, beyond that, of the sheer improbable drama of existence.Chiasma ;21.ActorsFranceBiographyElectronic books.Actors792.028092Knapp Bettina Liebowitz1926-2010.888131MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451846603321Marie Dorval1983764UNINA