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Shakespeare in Sable : A History of Black Shakespearean Actors
author
:
Hill, Errol.
publisher
:
University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0870235257
print isbn13
:
9780870235252
ebook isbn13
:
9780585083605
language
:
English
subject
Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Stage history--United States, African American actors--Biography, Theater--United States--History.
publication date
:
1984
lcc
:
PR3105.H54 1984eb
ddc
:
792.9/5
subject
:
Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Stage history--United States, African American actors--Biography, Theater--United States--History.
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Shakespeare in Sable
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Shakespeare in Sable
A History of Black Shakespearean Actors
Errol Hill Foreword by John Houseman
The University of Massachusetts Press Amherst
Page iv
Copyright 1984 by Errol Hill All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First paperback printing 1986 LC 83-18106 ISBN 0-87023-525-7 (paper) Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data appear on the last page of this book.
The publisher gratefully acknowledges the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities toward the publication of this book.
An earlier version of chapter 4 appeared in Women in American Theatre, ed. Helen Krich Chinoy and Linda Walsh Jenkins (New York: Crown Publishers, 1981), 1981 by Helen Krich Chinoy and Linda Walsh Jenkins. An earlier version of portions of chapter 2 appeared as "S. Morgan Smith: Successor to Ira Aldridge," Black American Literature Forum 16, no. 4 (1982), 1983 by Errol Hill and Indiana State University.
Frontispiece, Ira Aldridge as Othello, Frankfurt, 1852. From a lithograph by S. Buhler, Mannheim. The following note is appended to the picture: "Represented by him at the Royal Opera House, Berlin, before their Majesties the King and Queen and Court of Prussia; at the Court Theatre, Dresden, before the King, Queen and Court of Saxony, and the imperial Court of Austria."
Page v
For Lah and Grace who made it all possible
Page vii
Contents
Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Foreword by John Houseman
xiii
Introduction: A Personal Memoir
xvii
1 Shakespeare and the Black Actor
1
2 Involuntary Exiles
17
3 No Place Like Home
43
4 From Artist to Activist
64
5 Challenge of a New Century
79
6 Novelty Shakespeare
101
7 Broadway and Beyond
120
8 How Relevant Is Race?
143
9 Toward the Future
177
Notes
194
Bibliography
203
Index
207
Page ix
Illustrations
Ira Aldridge as Othello, Frankfurt, 1852 frontispiece
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