Our American Cousin
Author | : Tom Taylor |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2018-01-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 373262756X |
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Author | : Tom Taylor |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2018-01-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 373262756X |
Reproduction of the original.
Author | : Lowell Swortzell |
Publisher | : Dramatic Publishing |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781583424858 |
Author | : Tom Taylor |
Publisher | : Beacham Publishing Corporation |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
A copy of the play as well as a discussion of Lincoln's assassination.
Author | : Tom Taylor |
Publisher | : BoD - Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2023-06-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Our American Cousin is a three-act play written by English playwright Tom Taylor. The play opened in London in 1858 but quickly made its way to the U.S. and premiered at Laura Keene’s Theatre in New York City later that year. It remained popular in the U.S. and England for the next several decades. Its most notable claim to fame, however, is that it was the play U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was watching on April 14, 1865 when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, who used his knowledge of the script to shoot Lincoln during a more raucous scene. The play is a classic Victorian farce with a whole range of stereotyped characters, business, and many entrances and exits. The plot features a boorish but honest American cousin who travels to the aristocratic English countryside to claim his inheritance, and then quickly becomes swept up in the family’s affairs. An inevitable rescue of the family’s fortunes and of the various damsels in distress ensues. Our American Cousin was originally written as a farce for an English audience, with the laughs coming mostly at the expense of the naive American character. But after it moved to the U.S. it was eventually recast as a comedy where English caricatures like the pompous Lord Dundreary soon became the primary source of hilarity. This early version, published in 1869, contains fewer of that character’s nonsensical adages, which soon came to be known as “Dundrearyisms,” and for which the play eventually gained much of its popular appeal.
Author | : Tom Taylor |
Publisher | : Applewood Books |
Total Pages | : 53 |
Release | : 2006-08 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1557093881 |
The play that was being performed during Lincoln's assasination at Ford's Theater.
Author | : Tom Taylor |
Publisher | : Franklin Classics |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2018-10-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780342698042 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Tom Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 1869 |
Genre | : Americans |
ISBN | : |
A comedy about the experiences in England of Asa Trenchard of Brattleboro, Vermont.
Author | : Tom Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1869 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
The booklet appears to be a facsimile reproduction.
Author | : William E. Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tom TAYLOR (Dramatist.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1869 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |