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Ira Aldridge, the African Roscius /
Ira Aldridge -- a black New Yorker -- was one of nineteenth-century Europe's greatest actors. He performed abroad for forty-three years, winning more awards, honors, and official decorations than any of his professional peers. Billed as the "African Roscius," Aldridge developed a repe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester, NY :
University of Rochester Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora ;
v. 28. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1: The life
- Memoir and theatrical career of Ira Aldridge, the African Roscius / London: Onwhyn (n.d., but ca. 1848)
- Ira Aldridge (1860) / James McCune Smith
- Men we have known: Ira Aldridge (1867) / Philip A. Bell
- "Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice": new biographical information on Ira Aldridge / Bernth Lindfors
- Ira Aldridge's Swedish wife / Gunner Sjögren
- "African tragedian" in Golden Prague: some unpublished correspondence / James J. Napier and Stanley B. Winters
- A garland of love letters / Cyril Bruyn Andrews
- pt. 2: The career
- Ira Aldridge's fight for equality / Hazel Waters
- Ira Aldridge in Manchester / Ruth M. Cowhig
- Acting black: Othello, Othello burlesques, and the performance of blackness / Joyce Green MacDonald
- Ira Aldridge: Shakespeare and Minstrelsy / Nicholas M. Evans
- "Mislike me not for my complexion ... ": Ira Aldridge in Whiteface / Bernth Lindfors
- Ira Aldridge as Macbeth and King Lear / Herbert Marshall
- Creating the black hero: Ira Aldridge's The Black Doctor / Keith Byerman
- The first American on the Zagreb stage / Nikola Batuŝić
- A heartwarming, radiant Othello in the Netherlands, 1855 / Joost Groeneboer
- Ira Aldridge's performances in Meiningen / Ann Marie Koller
- "Othello's occupation's gone!" : The African Roscius in Poland, 1853-67 / Krzysztof Sawala.