The French journalist Jules Huret races through Bernhardt’s career, from the Comédie-Française to her own theatres, foreign tours, lawsuits and triumphs in Froufrou and Adrienne Lecouvreur. A chapter describes a single day in her life, another her daring Hamlet, and Rostand’s preface confesses the book gave him vertigo.
A vivid contemporary portrait of the most famous actress of her age, for theatre lovers. Download the free EPUB.