IRA Aldridge - The African Roscius

Diverse essays on the life and career of one of the greatest tragic actors of the nineteenth century.

List of contents

Memoir and the Theatrical Career of Ira Aldridge, the African Roscius
Ira Aldridge (1860)
Men We Have Known: Ira Aldridge (1867)
"Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice": New Biographical Information on Ira Aldridge
Ira Aldridge's Swedish Wife
"African Tragedian" in a Golden Prague: Some Unpublished Correspondence
A Garland of Love Letters
Ira Aldridge's Fight for Equality
Ira Aldridge in Manchester
Acting Black: Othello, Othello Burlesques, and t he Performance of Blackness
Ira Aldridge: Shakespeare and Minstrelsy
"Mislike me not for my complexion . . . ": Ira Aldridge in Whiteface
Ira Aldridge as Macbeth and King Lear
Creating the Black Hero: Ira Aldridge's The Black Doctor
The First American on the Zagreb Stage
A Heartwarming, Radiant Othello in the Netherlands, 1855
Ira Aldridge's Performances in Meiningen
"Othello's Occupation's Gone!": The African Roscius in Poland, 1853-67

Product details

• Authors: Bernth Lindfors
• Assisted by: Bernth Lindfors (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2010
• EAN: 9781580463744
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-374-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 228 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 425 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in African H
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet