Plays Acting and Music – Arthur Symons

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Auteur : Arthur Symons · Éditeur : Independently published · Année : 2021 · ISBN : 9798720503291 · Poids : 370 g

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Book Excerpt: aloneone can study, as one can study the mechanism of the body, not theprinciple of life itself. What is done mechanically, after the heat ofthe blood has cooled, and the divine accidents have ceased to happen, isprecisely all that was consciously skilful in the performance of an art.To see all this mechanism left bare, as the form of the skeleton is leftbare when age thins the flesh upon it, is to learn more easily all thatis to be learnt of structure, the art which not art but nature hashitherto concealed with its merciful covering.The art of Sarah Bernhardt has always been a very conscious art, but itspoke to us, once, with so electrical a shock, as if nerve touchednerve, or the mere « contour subtil » of the voice were laid tinglingly onone’s spinal cord, that it was difficult to analyse it coldly. She wasPhèdre or Marguerite Gautier, she was Adrienne Lecouvreur, Fédora, LaTosca, the actual woman, and she was also that other actual woman, SarahBernhardt. Two magics met and united, in theRead More

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