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Cargando... Ophelia's Fan: A Novelpor Christine Balint
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is a fictionalized account of the life of the actress who was Hector Berlioz's muse. It's an oddly structured book, told up until the time she & Berlioz marry in 1833, so we don't actually meet Berlioz until p. 250 of the 350-page book. The story, early on, is told in chronological order, but in the latter part it increasingly jumps around in time for no apparent reason, & actually inds in 1827, the year Miss Smithson arrives in Paris & becomes a sensation. There are also odd interludes narrated in first person by one of the charcters Southern plays (Juliet, Ophelia, etc.), reflecting on their own stories. (The story itself is told in first person, too. Are these interludes really Smithson getting into character? I don't know. They, & the book as a whole, remain a mystery to me.) ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Christine Balint reimagines the bittersweet life of Harriet Smithson, the tragedienne who brought Shakespeare to the French. Born in County Clare, Ireland, in 1800, Harriet is left in the care of the elderly priest Father Barrett, and is brought up on Lamb's Shakespeare, lime-sherbet sweets, and prayer. A child of traveling players, her ultimate inheritance is Covent Garden, London, the green room, and the theater's rough magic. With the arrival of Charles Kemble's English Theatre troupe in Paris in 1827, the Odeon Theatre is awash with the drama and music of Shakespeare. Harriet is Ophelia. The French Romantics swoon, traffic stops, and the high-society women plait straw in their hair in honor of her mad Ophelia. The fiery composer Hector Berlioz falls in love. In Ophelia's Fan, Balint re-creates the texture and breadth of the nineteenth century and brings alive Harriet Smithson; the actress and the woman, her roles and her loves. Reading group guide included. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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