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.

Forrest, Edwin.

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