Actor in Exile | Actor in Exile

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....

Actor in Exile | Actor in Exile

At a glance:

Form and Content

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