Helena Modjeska - Roles

Roles

Modjeska's chief tragic roles were:

  • William Shakespeare:
  • Ophelia, in Hamlet;
  • Juliet, in Romeo and Juliet;
  • Desdemona, in Othello; and
  • Queen Anne, in Richard III.
  • Nora, in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House.
  • Louisa Miller.
  • Friedrich Schiller's Maria Stuart and Princess Eboli.
  • Marion Delorme, in Victor Hugo's Marion Delorme.
  • Victor Hugo's Tisbé.
  • Juliusz Słowacki's Maria Stuart and Mazeppa.

Modrzejewska was also the Polish interpreter of the most prominent plays by Ernest Legouvé, Alexandre Dumas, père and fils, Émile Augier, Alfred de Musset, Octave Feuillet and Victorien Sardou.

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