Kean's costume & blackface

1800?

"Edmund Kean, regarded as the nineteenth century's most memorable Moor, significantly departed from a black-faced Othello when he opened at Drury Lane in 1814 . . . Kean abandoned black-face for light brown make-up . . . claiming that Othello must be a tawny Moor rather than a black African." (Kolin, 31-2)

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