Description: Diverse essays on the life and career of one of the greatest tragic actors of the nineteenth century.
Brief description: Bernth Lindfors is professor emeritus of English and African literatures, University of Texas at Austin.
Review Quotes: The value of this volume is not only in the detailed and fascinating study of Aldridge's life and work. . . but. . . as a detailed, informative, and often original history of European nineteenth-century theater.--Martin Banham "RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES"