Harriet Smithson is known today because in 1827 she chanced to play Ophelia and Juliet in a season of English theatre in Paris; Hector Berlioz was present, fell in love with the Shakespearean image, and pursued it in his life and in his music.
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A biography of the Irish born Harriet Smithson, who as an actress in Paris attracted the obsessive attention of the French composer Hector Berlioz who married her.
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Fair Ophelia: A Life of Harriet Smithson Berlioz
December 11, 2003, Cambridge University Press
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in English
- New Ed edition
0521545803 9780521545808
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Fair Ophelia: A Life of Harriet Smithson Berlioz
January 28, 1983, Cambridge University Press
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in English
0521244218 9780521244213
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Fair Ophelia: A life of Harriet Smithson Berlioz
1982, Cambridge University Press
Hardback
in English
0521244218 9780521244213
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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Page viii
Preface
Page xi
1.
Childhood in Ireland
Page 1
2.
Years of Apprenticeship
Page 13
3.
The walking lady
Page 32
4.
Shakespeare in France
Page 43
5.
'Fair Ophelia'
Page 57
6.
'La Belle Irlandaise'
Page 79
7.
The idée fixe
Page 106
8.
Episodes in the life of an artist
Page 127
9.
Berlioz's muse
Page 146
10.
The tragic dénouement
Page 162
11.
Romantic image
Page 176
Notes
Page 194
Bibliography
Page 204
Newspapers and periodicals
Page 209
Index
Page 210
Edition Notes
Bibliography: p. 204-208.
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