"'Born outside the magic pale of the Anglo-Saxon race': Political and Personal Dimension of Helena Modjeska's Contribution to Shakespeare Studies" https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc1262/ Author: Courtney, Krystyna Kujawińska. Type: Book Chapter Year: 2013 Publication Information: Courtney, "No other but a woman's reason": Women on Shakespeare: Towards Commemorating the 450th Anniversary of Shakespeare's Birth, 87–94. : Courtney, "No other but a woman's reason": Women on Shakespeare: Towards Commemorating the 450th Anniversary of Shakespeare's Birth Annotation: Describes Helena Modjeska's career in the United States and her attempt "to break not only linguistic but also cultural constrain[t]s" in the country. "Reveals that her strife to acknowledge an almost multicultural perspective in artistic renditions of Shakespeare's plays was inseparable from her erosion of the established male hegemony in the American nineteenth-century theatre." Language: English Persons: Penier, Izabella; Kwapisz-Williams, Katarzyna; Modjeska, Helena Tags: Actors, Acting, Directors, Directing, Productions WSB Update: Fall 2014 WSB Record Number: bbbc1262