Two Queens for an Actress: Mary Stuart
and Elizabeth I Played by Adelaide Ristori Cover Image

Due regine per un’attrice: Maria Stuarda e Elisabetta I nell’interpretazione di Adelaide Ristori
Two Queens for an Actress: Mary Stuart and Elizabeth I Played by Adelaide Ristori

Author(s): Francesca Simoncini
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
Keywords: Adelaide Ristori; acting; dramaturgy; Mary Stuart; Elizabeth I

Summary/Abstract: The essay analyses some scenes from Friedrich Schiller’s Mary Stuart and from Paolo Giacometti’s Queen Elizabeth I of England, performed by Adelaide Ristori. Through a careful comparison between textual sources (memoirs, scripts, testimonies) and iconographic sources(paintings, photographs, engravings), the scene movements and gestures used by the great actress are reconstructed.

  • Issue Year: 10/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 223-237
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Italian