No matter the role, Forrest performed with unbounded energy. "No actor," biographer Richard Moody would write, "could match him in shaking the rafters and lifting the spectators out of their boots."
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Caricature of Edwin Forrest as Spartacus, circa 1840.
No matter the role, Forrest performed with unbounded energy. "No actor," biographer Richard Moody would write, "could match him in shaking the rafters and lifting the spectators out of their boots."
