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DUSE, ELEANORA (1859– )

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DUSE, ELEANORA (1859– ) , See also:Italian actress, was See also:born at See also:Vigevano of a See also:family of actors, and made her first See also:stage See also:appearance at a very See also:early See also:age. The hardships incident to touring with travelling companies unfavourably affected her See also:health, but by 1885 she was recognized at See also:home as See also:Italy's greatest actress, and this See also:verdict was confirmed by that of all the leading cities of See also:Europe and See also:America. In 1893 she made her first appearances in New See also:York and in See also:London. For some years she was closelyassociated with the romanticist Gabriele d' See also:Annunzio, and several of his plays, notably La Cittd morta (1898) and Francesca da See also:Rimini (1901), provided her with important parts. But some of her See also:great successes during the 'eighties and early 'nineties—the days of her See also:chief triumphs—were in Italian versions of such plays as La See also:Dame aux camelias, in which Sarah See also:Bernhardt was already famous; and Madame Duse's reputation as an actress was founded less on her " creations " than on her magnificent individuality. In contrast to the great See also:French actress she avoided all " make-up "; her See also:art depended on intense naturalness rather than stage effect, sympathetic force and poignant intellectuality rather than the theatrical emotionalism of the French tradition. Her dramatic See also:genius gave a new See also:reading to the parts, and during these years the admirers of the two leading actresses of Europe practically constituted two See also:rival See also:schools of appreciation. I11-health kept Madame Duse off the stage for some See also:time; but though, after 'goo, it was no longer possible for her to avoid " make-up," her See also:rank among the great actresses of See also:history remained indisputable. See also a See also:biography by-L. Rasi (19oi); A. See also:Symons, Studies in Seven Arts (1906).

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