Ira Aldridge: The African Roscius
by Lindfors, BernthEdition: Reprint
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-09-01
Publisher(s): Boydell & Brewer Inc
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Summary
Diverse essays on the life and career of one of the greatest tragic actors of the nineteenth century.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Life | |
| Memoir and Theatrical Career of Ira Aldridge, the African Roscius London: Onwhyn (n.d., but ca. 1848) | p. 7 |
| Ira Aldridge (1860) | p. 39 |
| Men We Have Known: Ira Aldridge (1867) | p. 48 |
| "Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice": New Biographical Information on Ira Aldridge | p. 50 |
| Ira Aldridge's Swedish Wife | p. 68 |
| "African Tragedian" in Golden Prague: Some Unpublished Correspondence | p. 73 |
| A Garland of Love Letters | p. 79 |
| The Career | |
| Ira Aldridge's Fight for Equality | p. 97 |
| Ira Aldridge in Manchester | p. 126 |
| Acting Black: Othello, Othello Burlesques, and the Performance of Blackness | p. 135 |
| Ira Aldridge: Shakespeare and Minstrelsy | p. 157 |
| "Mislike me not for my complexion...": Ira Aldridge in Whiteface | p. 180 |
| Ira Aldridge as Macbeth and King Lear | p. 191 |
| Creating the Black Hero: Ira Aldridge's The Black Doctor | p. 204 |
| The First American on the Zagreb Stage | p. 216 |
| A Heartwarming, Radiant Othello in the Netherlands, 1855 | p. 222 |
| Ira Aldridge's Performances in Meiningen | p. 234 |
| "Othello's Occupation's Gone!" The African Roscius in Poland, 1853-67 | p. 243 |
| Notes on Contributors | p. 267 |
| Index | p. 271 |
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