Ira Aldridge on the Stage
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-5695-8 (ISBN)
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How does theatre history change when viewed through the life of Ira Aldridge, the first Black star of the British stage? Collating an anthology of plays in which Aldridge frequently performed, this volume proposes Aldridge’s career intervened in British and US debates about slavery and racial equality while reshaping the conventions of British theatre. Aldridge’s repertoire offers readers a way to engage with a long history of racial representation; the anthology ranges from 1721 to 1846 and includes a variety of genres, namely a tragedy, a proto-minstrel burletta, melodramas, and a minstrel play. As Aldridge was limited to a narrow range of roles, his career is uniquely accessible for study. At the same time, the introduction stresses how Aldridge pushed against the boundaries a white culture industry imposed, even as he drastically re-envisioned longstanding portions of the repertoire.
Gregory Vargo is an Associate Professor at New York University. He is the editor of the collection of plays Chartist Drama (2020) and the author of An Underground History of Early Victorian Fiction: Chartism, Radical Print Culture, and the Social Problem Novel (2018), which won the North American Victorian Studies Association’s best book of the year award in 2019.
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Ira Aldridge on the Stage
The Revenge (1721) by Edward Young (1663–1765)
The Padlock (1768) by Isaac Bickerstaff (1733–ca. 1812)
The Slave (1816) by Thomas Morton (1764–1838)
Obi; Or, Three-Fingered Jack (1830) by W. H. [William Henry] Murray (1790–1852)
The Virginia Mummy (1835) by Thomas Darmouth Rice (1808–1860)
The Black Doctor (1846) by Thomas Archer (1796–1848)
Appendix 1: Longer Manuscript Passages in The Slave Deleted in Publication
Appendix 2: Major Variants in Oxberry’s Weekly Budget of Plays and Magazine of Romance, Whim, and Interest version of Obi; Or, Three-Fingered Jack, 1 (1843): 93–5
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 12.5.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Edinburgh Critical Editions of Nineteenth-Century Texts |
| Zusatzinfo | 10 black & white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-5695-9 / 1399556959 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-5695-8 / 9781399556958 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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