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Our Lady of the Snows: Sarah Bernhardt in Canada  
Author: Ramon Hathorn
ISBN: 082042899X
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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The publisher, Peter Lang Publishing
Our Lady of the Snows documents Sarah Bernhardt's visits to Canada between 1880 and 1918, particularly her conflicts with the Archbishops of Montreal and Quebec City. It also examines the response of anglophone and francophone critics to her repertory and her presence in recent Canadian plays, particularly John Murrell's Memoir. It argues that Bernhardt, whose fame and notoriety provoked Quebec's patriarchal clerical establishment, was unwittingly a catalyst stimulating public debate between ultramontane and liberal Roman Catholics about the morality of the theatre which ultimately culminated in the appointment in 1912 of Montreal's first secular theatre censor.




Our Lady of the Snows: Sarah Bernhardt in Canada

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Our Lady of the Snows documents Sarah Bernhardt's visits to Canada between 1880 and 1918, particularly her conflicts with the Archbishops of Montreal and Quebec City. It also examines the response of anglophone and francophone critics to her repertory and her presence in recent Canadian plays, particularly John Murrell's Memoir. It argues that Bernhardt, whose fame and notoriety provoked Quebec's patriarchal clerical establishment, was unwittingly a catalyst stimulating public debate between ultramontane and liberal Roman Catholics about the morality of the theatre which ultimately culminated in the appointment in 1912 of Montreal's first secular theatre censor.

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Documents the actress' visits to Canada between 1880 and 1918, her conflicts with the Archbishops of Montreal and Quebec City, the response of anglophone and francophone critics to her repertoire, and her representation in recent Canadian plays. Argues that she provoked Quebec's patriarchal clerical establishment, and stimulated debate between conservative and liberal Roman Catholics about the morality of the theater that led to the appointment of Montreal's first theater censor in 1912. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

     



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