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Author: Beth Holmgren
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 3.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.726kg
ISBN: 9780253356642
ISBN 10: 0253356644
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 10 November 2011
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Starring Madame Modjeska... makes an important contribution to our understanding of Western theatre history. Scholars as well as theatre enthusiasts will surely benefit from this well-organized and meticulously researched study of a true international star of the nineteenth century. -cosmopolitanreview.com While theater enthusiasts will enjoy the care and detail that Beth Holmgren took with Starring Madame Modjeska, readers of history will appreciate the role this woman played on the world's stage. It makes for great drama. -newpages.com The breadth of Holmgren's research is impressive, as is her talent as a writer. Her achievement is to have put together from many disparate sources an immensely readable narrative. -Women's Review of Books Starring Madame Modjeska is based on very solid archival research, yet it is written with lightness and grace-qualities inspired by the character of the formidable protagonist of this excellent book. -Slavic Review Through extensive research on two continents, Holmgren offers a richly contextualized account of how the Polish Modrzejewska successfully negotiated late nineteenth century ethnic, class, and gender hierarchies to become the American Modjeska, luminous star and self-styled aristocrat. This beautifully written biography contributes to the histories of both theatre and immigration with nuanced insight into a compelling case of binational cultural arbitration. -Kim Marra, author of Strange Duets: Impresarios and Actresses in the American Theatre, 1865-1914 A fine piece of scholarship on Helena Modjeska, a major figure in American theatre in the last quarter of the nineteenth century... The breadth of Holmgren's research is impressive, as is the creativity of her approach... I loved the book and learned a great deal from it. -Catherine Schuler, editor, Theatre Journal Starring Madame Modjeska is a tour de force... Modjeska's story is conveyed in clear, vivid, witty prose. -Boena Shallcross, University of Chicago Holmgren's study is a truly transnational biography, elegantly written and immaculately researched. Its real achievement is to make Modrzejewska whole, not just by bridging two national narratives but by integrating her public and private personae... Starring Madame Modjeska will be of interest to scholars of nineteenth-century Poland, world theater, and American immigration. -H-Poland H-Net Reviews
Starring Madame Modjeska is a tour de force... Modjeska's story is conveyed in clear, vivid, witty prose. Bozena Shallcross, University of Chicago Starring Madame Modjeska offers insight into not only the prodigious life of a captivating actress who crafted her own unique romantic acting style as well as her public persona; it also provides a colorful portrait of the nineteenth-century theatre. - Cosmopolitan Review
Starring Madame Modjeska is a tour de force... Modjeska's story is conveyed in clear, vivid, witty prose. Bozena Shallcross, University of Chicago
Author Information
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).
