Author: Charles MATHEWS (the Elder.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Sketches of Mr. Mathews' celebrated lecture on character, manners, and peculiarities, entitled the Home Circuit; or, Cockney Gleanings, etc
Author: Charles MATHEWS (the Elder.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
A Catalogue of Old and Rare Books Offered for Sale
Author: Pickering & ChattoPublisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
The Players
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Ira Aldridge
Author: Bernth LindforsPublisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 1580463819
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The first widely available biography of this important black Victorian-age actor, Ira Aldridge: The Early Years, 1807-1833 details the early life and career of this New York-born thespian as he began to act on the British stage. Ira Aldridge: The Early Years, 1807-1833 chronicles the rise of one of the modern world's first black classical actors, as he ascended from an impoverished childhood in New York City to a career as a celebrated thespian onthe British stage. After a successful debut in London in 1825, Aldridge began touring the British provinces, billing himself grandiloquently as the "African Roscius," and attracting crowds with his powerful presence and style. He received accolades not only as a tragedian in classic roles such as Othello and Oroonoko but also as a comic actor in popular farces and musicals. In 1833, when a bill to abolish slavery was being debated in Parliament, he was called back to London to perform at one of the city's most prestigious theaters, where his appearance, now under his own name but also billed as "a native of Senegal," created a great deal of controversy. In dealing with Aldridge's emergence as a professional actor in the United Kingdom, Lindfors here records in detail the ups and downs of his itinerant existence in a world where no theatergoer had ever seen anyone like him on stage before. Aldridgewas genuinely a unique phenomenon in Britain at a pivotal point in history. Bernth Lindfors is Professor Emeritus of English and African Literatures, University of Texas at Austin, and editor of Ira Aldridge: The African Roscius (University of Rochester Press, 2007).
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 936
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