Actor in Exile (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Mary Malone
- First Published: 1969
- Time of Work: 1820–1867
- Setting: New York City, England, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, France, Sweden, Serbia, Russia, and Poland
- Principal Characters: Ira Aldridge, Daniel Aldridge, Henry Wallack, Henry Brown, Edmund Kean, James Smith, Margaret Gill, Ira Daniel Aldridge, Amanda Pauline von Brandt
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography, Children's literature
- Subjects: African Americans, Acting or actors, Racism, Nineteenth century, Oppression, Theater, Biography
- Locales: New York, NY, France, England, Germany, Ireland, Russia, Sweden, Scotland, Austria, Poland, Belgium, Serbia
Form and Content
Mary Malone’s Actor in Exile: The Life of Ira Aldridge is an easy-to-read, sometimes meandering narrative of the nineteenth century actor’s unique career. While Malone does not eschew the personal facts or events of her subject’s life, the focus is clearly on his developing career and his gradual empowerment as an independent artist of international stature.
The book begins with a preface discussing the different names by which Aldridge was known at different points in his career and subsuming them under his lifelong identity as an actor....
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