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...
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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...
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1826: American-born black actor Ira Aldridge debuted...
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1826
American-born black actor Ira Aldridge debuted in London as Othello at the Royalty Theatre.
Law, Jonathan et al., editors. The New Penguin Dictionary of the Theatre. Market House Books, 2001.
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Carnell, Jennifer. The Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A Study of Her Life and Work. Sensation Press, 2000.
