By Eugene O'Neill
Winner of 4 Pulitzer Prizes and the 1st American dramatist to obtain a Nobel Prize, Eugene O'Neill stuffed his performs with wealthy characterization and cutting edge language, taking the outcasts and renegades of society and depicting their Olympian struggles with themselves-and with future.
Contents:
Beyond the Horizon
The Emperor Jones
Anna Christie
The bushy Ape
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In the character of Othello—his special favourite (for he has a decided preference for serious parts)—he seems to have precisely Dr. Johnson’s conception of it. ” Mr. Aldridge feels and acts all this. In “The Slave,” he is solemn in the intensity of his hatred, bursting out occasionally into a blaze of fierce invective and passionate declamation, and then hiding the fire of his feelings beneath the assumed servility necessary to his purpose and his station. There is no other actor who exhibits the same amount of gravity, save Mr.
His engagement at the Surrey Theatre has just terminated with offers to renew it; but it is on the Middlesex side [of] the water he must take his stand and be thoroughly tested. ”—The theatrical critics are loud in praise of a real Ethiopian tragedian, a Mr. Aldridge, with the unusual Christian name of Ira, which is, no doubt, symbolical of its owner being “the rage,” wherever he goes. Mr. Aldridge will, no doubt, soon come forward more conspicuously than he has hitherto done, and justify the above remark.
This honour was delivered to Mr. Aldridge through the consul in London. Many addresses have been written for him, and to him. From among the former we extract the following clever poetic effusion, from the pen of Mr. Stirling Coyne, a dramatic author of some metropolitan celebrity—one who has contributed largely to the best productions of the Adelphi, and the writer of its latest successful pieces:— ADDRESS. ”—’tis o’er; The mask has fall’n—I’m actor here no more. But still your pupil—protégé—whate’er Your kindness made me, and your fostering care, “This mourning suit” perchance offends your sight; But Nature triumphs, and asserts her right; Expands my heart, and bids my tongue explain The pride—the gratitude that swells each vein, That floods unseen my dusky cheek—and dwells Enshrin’d within my bosom’s deepest cells; Nurs’d in the land, where rolls the giant tide, Of sluggish Senegal, through deserts wide, Where every tainted breeze comes winged with death, And Nature sickens in the poison breath; Amid such scenes the Negro strays alone In happy innocence—untaught—unknown: Happy because that desert’s faithless sand ❧ memoir and theatrical career of ira aldridge 29 He claims his own, his long-loved native land.