Edwin Forrest : a biography and performance history / Arthur W. Bloom.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Bloom, Arthur W., 1939- author.

Contributor:

• Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
• Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
• Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• United States.
• Forrest, Edwin, 1806-1872.
• Actors--United States--Biography.
• Actors.

Genre:

• Biographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 334 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]

Summary:

"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 separating it from his public image. Included is a historical chronology of every known performance the actor gave"-- Provided by publisher.

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".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

• Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
• Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

• 9781476677545
• 1476677549

OCLC:

1057305194

Online:

• The Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund Home Page
• The Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund Home Page