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Winner of the 2012 Errol Hill Award, given by the American Society for Theatre Research for outstanding scholarship in African American theater, drama, and/or performance studies. A work of monumental scholarship. AFRICAN THEATRE A meticulously researched and exhaustively detailed biography. E3W REVIEW OF BOOKS A meticulously researched account...handsomely produced. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

Winner of the Theatre Library Association's 2015 George Freedley Award Special Jury Prize As a meticulously researched study with superb supplementary materials, Lindfor's book is a very valuable historical resource. THEATRE SURVEY The third volume of Bernth Lindfor's estimable multi-volume biography of Aldridge provides an in-depth, thoroughly researched account of Alridge's 1852-1855 Continental tour. NEW THEATRE QUARTERLY Recommended. CHOICE Bernth Lindfors's Aldridge series is a breathtaking and ambitious project of both superlative scholarship and the utmost historical importance, written in a precise, fluent, and charming style that is straightforward and authoritative. In Ira Aldridge: Performing Shakespeare in Europe, 1852-1855, Lindfors provides much new information on topics such as Aldridge's character, acting style, use of gesture and voice, performance strategies, and ideological disposition that will become anchoring reference points for future scholarship. --Colin Chambers, author of Black and Asian Theatre in Britain: A History

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Bernth Lindfors is professor emeritus of English and African literatures, University of Texas at Austin.

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