Ira Aldridge, the African Tragedian, as "Othello", 1858. American-born British actor, playwright and theatre manager. '...his impersonations , Gambia, Zanga, and other characters suited to his complexion, were so successful that he rose rapidly in histrionic the fall of the curtain [at the Covent-garden Theatre] he was called for and enthusiastically both a tragic and a comic actor Mr. Aldridge's talents are undeniably great. In tragedy he has a solemn intensity of style, bursting occasionally into a blaze of fierce invective or passionate declama
Ira Aldridge, the African Tragedian, as "Othello", 1858. American-born British actor, playwright and theatre manager. '...his impersonations , Gambia, Zanga, and other characters suited to his complexion, were so successful that he rose rapidly in histrionic the fall of the curtain [at the Covent-garden Theatre] he was called for and enthusiastically both a tragic and a comic actor Mr. Aldridge's talents are undeniably great. In tragedy he has a solemn intensity of style, bursting occasionally into a blaze of fierce invective or passionate declamation; while the dark shades of his face become doubly sombre in their thoughtful aspect: a nightlike gloom is spread over them, and an expression more terrible than paler lineaments can readily assume. In farce he is exceedingly amusing: the ebony becomes polished; the coal emits there is not a darker frown than his, there is not a broader grin'. From "Illustrated London News", 1858.
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