Excerpt from The Dead City: A Tragedy

In The Dead City, Eleonora Duse takes the part of Anna, the blind woman, a part of renunci ation, the part of a resigned soothsayer, as in La Gioconda, her task, as the poet Gabriele d'ano nunzio expresses it, is to speak of all the beauti ful things in the shadow of an antique statue. And Duse Speaks of these beautiful things with the sweetest 'music of her voice, which encircles the beautiful phrases, as precious gems in a golden setting, and makes them glitter in all their splendor. - Tus Tunsuvroa.

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