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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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