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Eleonora Duse

Italian actress
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Henry McCormick Professor of Dramatic History and Criticism, Yale University, 1965ā€“76. Author of Sources of Theatrical History and others.
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Eleonora Duse (born Oct. 3, 1858, near or in Vigevano, Lombardy, Austrian Empire [now in Italy]ā€”died April 21, 1924, Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S.) was an Italian actress who found her great interpretive roles in the heroines of the Italian playwright Gabriele Dā€™Annunzio and of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Most of Duseā€™s family were actors who played in the same touring troupe, and she made her first stage appearance at the age of four in a...

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