person
Eleonora Duse
Duse
also: Дузе, Duse
Celebrated Italian actress, named alongside Sarah Bernhardt as a byword for a certain kind of affected stage manner the parody theater review claims a young Moscow actress avoided.
Reading notes
- To M. P. Chekhova, 17 March 1891. Petersburg. §3 the Italian actress Duse
Eleonora Duse (1858-1924), the celebrated Italian actress, then on a Russian tour; Chekhov, who did not speak Italian, singles out this performance as one of the most powerful he had ever witnessed, using it as the occasion for an unfavorable comparison with the leading actresses of the Russian stage.