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Article: Obituary:Maria Casares
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 7, 1996
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Maria Casares was the most outstanding French tragic actress of
her generation. She was born in Spain but, because of enforced
exile at the end of the Spanish Civil War, her career was entirely
on the French stage and screen.
Unlike her seniors Edwige Feuillere and Madeleine Renaud, she
brought an atavistic and foreboding sense of tragic destiny to her
performances that made her unsuitable for comedy and the lighter
theatre. She carried on the tradition of Sarah Bernhardt in
performing the great roles of Greek tragedy and of the French
classical theatre, Phedre being one of her most outstanding
performances, but she also played a multiplicity of parts in plays
by Ibsen and early moderns and ...