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Edwin Forrest : a biography and performance history

"Edwin Forrest was the foremost American actor of the nineteenth century. His advocacy of American, and specifically Jacksonian, themes made him popular in New York's Bowery Theatre. This full-length biography examines Forrest's personal life while acknowledging the impossibility of s...

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Main Author: Bloom, Arthur W., 1939- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]
Subjects and Genres:
Forrest, Edwin, > 1806-1872.
Actors > United States > Biography.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • "The spouting schoolboy"
  • "One continuous struggle"
  • "What a mountain of a man!"
  • "You have sent for me and I have come"
  • Forrest and bird : the gladiator, the Peruvian and the broker
  • The grand tour
  • "If I fail, I fail"
  • Private life and new roles
  • The second English tour
  • Domestic life in America
  • Forrest versus Macready
  • The Astor Place riot
  • Not so private lives
  • "There is no finality to the law, until they hang a man"
  • "Melodrama is his true field"
  • Touring during the Civil War
  • The "veteran does not lag superfluous on the stage"
  • "I am busy and do not desire to be disturbed"
  • "Steady me and let me go on".

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