Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2007.
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Part of the series Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora v. 28
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 1. Memoir and theatrical career of Ira Aldridge, the African Roscius / London : Onwhyn — 2. Ira Aldridge / James McCune Smith — 3. Men we have known : Ira Aldridge / Philip A. Bell — 4. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice : new biographical information on Ira Aldridge / Bernth Lindfors — 5. Ira Aldridge’s Swedish wife / Gunner Sjogren — 6. African tragedian in Golden Prague : some unpublished correspondence / James J. Napier and Stanley B. Winters — 7. garland of love letters / Cyril Bruyn Andrews — 8. Ira Aldridge’s fight for equality / Hazel Waters — 9. Ira Aldridge in Manchester / Ruth M. Cowhig — 10. Acting Black : Othello, Othello Burlesques, and the performance of blackness / Joyce Green MacDonald — 11. Ira Aldridge : Shakespeare and Minstrelsy / Nicholas M. Evans — 12. Mislike me not for my complexion … : Ira Aldridge in Whiteface / Bernth Lindfors — 13. Ira Aldridge as Macbeth and King Lear / Herbert Marshall — 14. Creating the black hero : Ira Aldridge’s The Black Doctor / Keith Byerman — 15. first American on the Zagreb stage / Nikola Batusic — 16. heartwarming, radiant Othello in the Netherlands, 1855 / Joost Groeneboer — 17. Ira Aldridge’s performances in Meiningen / Ann Marie Koller — 18. Othello’s occupation’s gone! the African Roscius in Poland, 1853-67 / Krzysztof Sawala.
- This collection restores the luster to Ira Aldridge’s reputation by examining his extraordinary achievements against all odds. The early essays offer biographical information, while later essays examine his critical and popular reception throughout the world. Here, too, are analyses of Aldridge’s performances in some of his most famous roles, as well as surprising new information about his private life. Taken together, these diverse approaches to Aldridge offer a fuller understanding and heightened appreciation of a remarkable man who had an exceptionally interesting life and a spectacular career. –BOOK JACKET.
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