Eleonora Duse and Cenere (Ashes)

Maria Pia Pagani is an adjunct professor of theatrical literature, art of directing and theatre discipline at the University of Pavia (Italy). She has written many essays—in Italian, English, Russian—about Duse. She is a member of the Pen Club International and the managing editor for Italy in “The Theatre Times,” a portal for global theatre news. Paul Fryer is an academic, author, editor and researcher, based in Kent (UK). He has lectured and presented film screenings internationally and is a visiting professor at the Universities of Leeds, London South Bank and East London.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForeword: End WithoutAntonio AttisaniIntroductionEleonora Duse and the Fall of the European Tradition of Acting: An Historical Overview (Giuliano Campo)Verga and Duse: Before Cenere (Enza De Francisci)Duse and the Stanislavsky System of Acting (Sharon Marie Carnicke)Duse Recorded (Paul Fryer)Duende Has No Age (Maria Pia Pagani)The Work of the Actor Febo Mari (Francesca Brignoli)“L’art du silence! La fièvre au cœur, depuis cette offre de Griffith,je n’ai rêvé que des films”: Cenere through Duse’s Letters to Her Daughter Enrichetta Maria (Ida Bigg) i127Cenere: A Selected Annotated Bibliography and Mediagraphy (Nuccio Lodato)Appendix A. Grazia Deledda: From Cenere to the Nobel Prize, Nobel Award Presentation Speech by Henrick Schück, December 10, 1927 Appendix B. Grazia Deladda, Voice of Sardinia: The First Italian Woman to Receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (Anders Hallengren)BibliographyAbout the ContributorsIndex