Buch, Englisch, Band 59, 362 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 703 g
Reihe: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Performing Shakespeare in Europe, 1852-1855
Buch, Englisch, Band 59, 362 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 703 g
Reihe: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
ISBN: 978-1-58046-472-7
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
This book describes the "glory years" of Ira Aldridge's first Continental tour, during which he won more awards and honors, often conferred by royalty, than any other actor of his day.
2015 George Freedley Memorial Award (Theatre Library Association)
Ira Aldridge: Performing Shakespeare in Europe, 1852-1855, the third volume of Bernth Lindfors's award-winning biography, traces the American-born black classical actor's itinerary on his first Continental tour. Starting inBrussels and following Aldridge up the Rhine to Basel, on to Berlin and Vienna, and cities in Prussia and Hungary, Lindfors recounts the major performances and analyzes audience responses to them.
Because European audiences wanted to see this "African" actor in Shakespearean roles rather than in the melodramas and farces that were popular in Britain, Aldridge concentrated almost exclusively on performing as Othello, Shylock, Macbeth, and Richard III. He performed the roles in English even when acting with local companies who spoke in German, Hungarian, or another European language. Aldridge's impressive manner of interpreting these characters won him many honors, awards, and medals, some bestowed by heads of state or by national academies. Drawing on myriad reviews, playbills, and letters, many of them penned by Aldridge himself, Lindfors examines in detail Aldridge's interpretations of these timeless characters and shows why these were Aldridge's glory years.
Bernth Lindfors, professor emeritus of English and African Literatures, University of Texas at Austin, is the author of Ira Aldridge: The Early Years, 1807-1833 and Ira Aldridge: The Vagabond Years, 1833-1852, both published by the University of Rochester Press in 2011.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction
Making Up a Company
Brussels
Navigating up the Rhine
Moving into the Interior
Berlin
On to Vienna
Hungarian Rhapsodies
Comparisons and Contrasts
Personal and Personnel Matters
Hungarian Rap Sheet
Prussia, Germany, Switzerland
Homeward Bound
Interpreting Shakespeare
Further Travels
Appendixes
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
