September 7, 2003
'Eleonora Duse': The First Modern Actor
By BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/books/review/07NIGHTIT.html?pagewanted=print
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ELEONORA DUSE
A Biography.
By Helen Sheehy.
Illustrated. 380 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $32.50.
In one of his most deeply felt reviews, George Bernard Shaw compared the two
most eminent actresses of the time, each of whom was performing at a different
London theater in June 1895. He had already praised Eleonora Duse
