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Sarah Bernhardt and the Refining of American Vaudeville

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2009

Leigh Woods
Leigh Woods
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Associate Professor and the Head of Theatre Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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Extract

None of Sarah Barnhardt's many biographers has treated her American vaudeville tours as anything more than a footnote to a career remarkable in so many other ways. Examined more closely, Bernhardt's encounter with vaudeville suggests a not always tranquil marriage between high art and popular culture, and it serves as an index to the evolution of a distinctively American form.

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Theatre Research International , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , Spring 1993 , pp. 16 - 24
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1993

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