Ira Aldridge
Standard Name: Aldridge, Ira
Connections
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Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
's novel was probably also inspired by her role two years earlier as the quadroon Zelinda in Thomas Morton
's The Slave, playing opposite black American actor Ira Aldridge
. Braddon had probably... |
Occupation | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | She played male parts in plays by Shakespeare
and others, not as burlesque, but as straight parts after the style of Charlotte Cushman
. At least one reviewer, in Coventry's Era, objected to... |
Timeline
1826