How to Undo Things and Selves with Words: Understanding Literature as Praxis in Virginia Woolf’s Essays on Actresses by Caroline Marie

“…This article reads her essay “Personalities” (1947), in which she explores the reader’s response to the personalities of writers, in light of three essays that discuss the art of acting embodied by three celebrated nineteenth-century actresses, “The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt” (1908), “Rachel” (1911) and “Ellen Terry” (1941). …”
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Le “Written Speech” yeatsien et ses expressions scéniques by Pierre Longuenesse

“…After a first career, with his brother William, in the aera of popular irish theatre, he tried to apply in the Abbey the vocal training of the “french model”, from Coquelin to… Sarah Bernhardt, and the Paris Conservatoire. A strange alliance thus took place between the poet, the actor, and a voice tradition seemingly very far from the “yeatsian utopia”. …”
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‘What a perennial delight is in hearing the French language spoken!’: Class, Language and Taste in the Maison de Molière’s French Performances in London (1871–1893) by Ignacio Ramos Gay

“…Upon receiving the troupe, renowned actor Henry Irving praised the success of French actors, such as Got, Mounet-Sully, Coquelin aîné and cadet, and Sarah Bernhardt on the Gaiety Theatre stage in London. …”
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The French Actor on the London Stage: Charles Fechter by Catherine Quirk

“…Many studies have looked at the temporary star turns taken by French actors in London, with the performances of, for example, Sarah Bernhardt and Rachel coming in for a particularly large amount of analysis. …”
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