Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: 192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/8967
Title: Ira Aldridge, the African Roscius
Authors: Bernth, Lindfors
Toyin Falola
Keywords: Aldridge, Ira Frederick, d. 1867
Issue Date: 2007
Publisher: University of Rochester
Description: Ira Aldridge had a remarkable life and career. Born in lowly circumstances in New York City, educated for a few years at an African Free School, self-taught as an actor but prevented from appearing in plays at white theaters in America, he emigrated to England, began performing as a headliner at minor London theaters while still a teenager, then toured for more than a quarter of a century all over the British Isles, and finally, during the last fifteen years of his life, earned a reputation on the European Continent as one of the greatest tragedians of his day. Aldridge traveled farther, was seen by more people in more nations, and won a greater number of prestigious honors, decorations, and awards than any other actor in the nineteenth century
URI: http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/8967
ISBN: 978-1-58046-258-7
Appears in Collections:African Studies

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