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

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Ira Aldridge Symposium Uniwersytet Łódzki
Uniwersytet Łódzki. Katedra Studiów Brytyjskich i Krajów Współnoty Brytyjskiej
Other Authors: Kujawińska-Courtney, Krystyna
Łukowska, Maria Antonina
Language:English
Published: Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang, [2009], ©2009.
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Physical Description:160 pages ; 21 cm
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Contents:
  • The lives of Ira Aldridge
  • Ira Aldridge (1807-1867) : from "playing the African prince" to becoming "the greatest interpreter of the ever-living Shakespeare"
  • Ira Aldridge : prophet of protest
  • Creating the Black hero : Ira Aldridge's the Black doctor
  • Ira Aldridge, multiculturalism, and the theatre of mid-nineteenth-century Wrocław
  • Ira Aldridge in Cracow (1854 and 1858) : a difficult reception
  • Ira Aldridge, Lodzermensch
  • In defence of "otherness" : Ira Aldridge as Shylock in Poland from 1853 to 1867
  • Ira Aldridge in Manchester, and the background of Blacks in England
  • The Polish cause and Ira Aldridge in Maciej Karpiński's Othello dies
  • Ira Aldridge, the legend and contemporary hero : writing a play about the great actor's visit to Łódź
  • Contemporary knowledge of Ira Aldridge among ŁódźŁ tertiary school students of cultural and film studies : a survey of the academic year 2006/2007.