Ira Aldridge, 1807-1867 : the great Shakespearean tragedian on the bicentennial anniversary of his birth

Folger bibliographic ID: 230038
Folger call number: PN2287.A457 I74 2009
Folger holdings ID: 276249
Accession Number: 266367

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-154) and index

Contents

The lives of Ira Aldridge / Bernth Lindfors -- Ira Aldridge (1807-1867) : from "playing the African prince" to becoming "the greatest interpreter of the ever-living Shakespeare" / Krystyna Kujawiń̨ska Courtney -- Ira Aldridge : prophet of protest / Baron Kelly -- Creating the Black hero : Ira Aldridge's the Black doctor / Keith Byerman -- Ira Aldridge, multiculturalism, and the theatre of mid-nineteenth-century Wrocław / Katarzyna Kwapisz Williams and Evan Williams -- Ira Aldridge in Cracow (1854 and 1858) : a difficult reception / Olga Mastela -- Ira Aldridge, Lodzermensch / Lukasz Romanowski -- In defence of "otherness" : Ira Aldridge as Shylock in Poland from 1853 to 1867 / Agata Dąbrowska -- Ira Aldridge in Manchester, and the background of Blacks in England / Ruth Cowhig -- The Polish cause and Ira Aldridge in Maciej Karpiński's Othello dies / Joanna Sadowska -- Ira Aldridge, the legend and contemporary hero : writing a play about the great actor's visit to Łódź / Caban Remingiusz -- Contemporary knowledge of Ira Aldridge among ŁódźŁ tertiary school students of cultural and film studies : a survey of the academic year 2006/2007 / Maria Łukowska

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Gift of Krystyna Kujawinska Courtney

Extended title: Ira Aldridge, 1807-1867 : the great Shakespearean tragedian on the bicentennial anniversary of his birth / edited by Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney and Maria Łukowska

Aldridge, Ira Frederick, -1867 African American actors Shakespearean actors and actresses Black theater

subject: Aldridge, Ira Frederick, -1867
associated with: Kujawińska-Courtney, Krystyna
associated with: Łukowska, Maria Antonina
associated with: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Katedra Studiów Brytyjskich i Krajów Współnoty Brytyjskiej