
Alois M. Nagler
Contributor
LOCATION: New Haven, CT, United States
Henry McCormick Professor of Dramatic History and Criticism, Yale University, 1965–76. Author of Sources of Theatrical History and others.
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Sarah Bernhardt was the greatest French actress of the later 19th century and one of the best-known figures in the history of the stage. Bernhardt was the illegitimate daughter of Julie Bernard, a Dutch courtesan who had established herself in Paris (the identity of her father is uncertain). As the…
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