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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2013
Aldridge returned to London early in April 1855. He fell ill and rested for four months before resuming his career as an itinerant performer in the British Isles for the next twenty-one months. A rumor that he had been engaged for six months at Drury Lane Theater in London proved to be untrue. Instead, he began his new campaign in Plymouth, where playbills and newspaper advertisements heralded his reappearance in England after three remarkable years abroad
during which period he had the distinguished honour of appearing before Frederick William, King of Prussia; the Queen, Prince, and Princess Royal, of Prussia, and the Court; Francis Joseph the First, Emperor of Austria; the Arch-Duchess of Austria, and the Imperial Family; Frederick Augustus of Saxony, and the Queen Maria; the King and Queen of Holland; the Duke and Duchess of Saxe-Cobourg Gotha; the Queen of Sweden; General Jallachich [sic], Ban of Croatia; from whom he has received the most flattering encomiums for each and every Performance honoured by their presence.
He was scheduled to appear for ten nights in a variety of Shakespearean roles (Othello, Shylock, Macbeth, Richard III, King Lear) as well as in a number of melodramatic and farcical roles (Gambia in The Slave; Bertram in Bertram; or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand; Karfa in Obi; or, Three-Fingered Jack; Alambra in Paul and Virginia; Mungo in The Padlock; Ginger Blue in The Virginian Mummy) that had been staples in his repertoire in earlier tours of Britain.
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