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Ira Aldridge, the African Roscius
- Title
- Ira Aldridge, the African Roscius / edited by Bernth Lindfors.
- Publication
- Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2007.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Lindfors, Bernth.
- Description
- xii, 288 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora ; v. 28
- Subject
- Aldridge, Ira Frederick, 1807-1867
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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/ Bernth Lindfors -- Ira Aldridge's Swedish wife / Gunner Sjögren -- "African tragedian" in Golden Prague: some unpublished correspondence / James J. Napier and Stanley B. Winters -- A garland of love letters / Cyril Bruyn Andrews -- Pt. 2: The career -- Ira Aldridge's fight for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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 07-882
- ISBN
- 9781580462587 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1580462588
- LCCN
- 2007015443
- OCLC
- 123119867
- Title
- Ira Aldridge, the African Roscius / edited by Bernth Lindfors.
- Imprint
- Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2007.
- Series
- Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora ; v. 28
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Lindfors, Bernth.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 07-882JFE 07-6912