Edwin Forrest
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Edwin Forrest, American Shakespearean actor and rival of William McCready.
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentNarratorA Twist of History · The Shakespeare Riot · 24:27 · Jun 2025
…Forrest went on to say publicly that he hated what he called a fancy dance that MacReady had added to Hamlet for no reason. Forrest grew up poor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He made his bones as an actor performing in places like New York's Bowery Theatre, where working-class audiences hissed and shouted all the time, so his reaction to MacReady's fancy d…
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