Abstract
Ira Aldridge, the African American actor popularly known as the ‘African Roscius’, was one of the greatest thespians of his day. No other performer in the nineteenth century won so many prestigious international awards and honours. No other toured so widely, enacting the plays of Shakespeare throughout Europe and as far East as Constantinople, Moscow, Kiev and St.Petersburg. Yet even after establishing his reputation in every corner of the British Isles and in many of the major cities on the Continent, Aldridge was seldom invited to perform in London, and he never returned to the United States to perform on the American stage.
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