Download or read book Our American Cousin written by Tom Taylor and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book Our American Cousin written by Tom Taylor and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-25 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Our American Cousin written by Tom Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Taylor's popular play, adored by audiences and infamous for its connection to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Asa Trenchard, a well-meaning but uncultured American, travels to England to claim an estate. There, he meets his English relatives, who are members of the aristocracy. A clash of cultures ensues. The play is well known for the character of the befuddled Lord Dundreary, who made famous both Dundrearies (bushy sideburns and whiskers) and Dundrearyisms, which combine two otherwise unconnected aphorisms. President Abraham Lincoln was attending a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865 when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Download or read book Our American Cousin written by Tom Taylor and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Our American Cousin' by Tom Taylor is a side-splitting three-act play filled with laughter, misunderstandings, and unexpected romance. Asa Trenchard, the brash American cousin, journeys to England to claim his family estate, setting off a series of comical encounters with his aristocratic English relatives. Amid financial woes, secret debts, and romantic entanglements, Asa's genuine character shines through, captivating both the audience and the unsuspecting Trenchard family. With witty banter, outrageous situations, and a heartwarming finale, this play is a delightful farce that will leave you smiling and cheering for love to conquer all.
Download or read book The Fool s Revenge written by Tom Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our American Cousin written by Tom Taylor and published by Beacham Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1990 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A copy of the play as well as a discussion of Lincoln's assassination.
Download or read book Our American Cousin written by Lowell Swortzell and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1962 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth written by Donna M. Bozzone, Ph.D. and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln, the assassination of a U.S. President was considered unthinkable. All of that changed on April 14, 1865, when Booth shot Lincoln as the president watched the play Our American Cousin. What led Booth to commit this murder, and what effect did this deadly act have on the United States? With this book, readers will take a closer look at this history-making event as well as the lives of Lincoln and Booth before their fateful encounter. Booth may have assassinated Lincoln, but even today the 16th president remains one of the nation's most respected.
Download or read book Our American Cousin written by Tom Taylor and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The play that was being performed during Lincoln's assasination at Ford's Theater.
Download or read book Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination written by Thomas Bogar and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: April 14, 1865. A famous actor pulls a trigger in the presidential balcony, leaps to the stage and escapes, as the president lies fatally wounded. In the panic that follows, forty-six terrified people scatter in and around Ford’s Theater as soldiers take up stations by the doors and the audience surges into the streets chanting, “Burn the place down!” This is the untold story of Lincoln’s assassination: the forty-six stage hands, actors, and theater workers on hand for the bewildering events in the theater that night, and what each of them witnessed in the chaos-streaked hours before John Wilkes Booth was discovered to be the culprit. In Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination, historian Thomas A. Bogar delves into previously unpublished sources to tell the story of Lincoln’s assassination from behind the curtain, and the tale is shocking. Police rounded up and arrested dozens of innocent people, wasting time that allowed the real culprit to get further away. Some closely connected to John Wilkes Booth were not even questioned, while innocent witnesses were relentlessly pursued. Booth was more connected with the production than you might have known—learn how he knew each member of the cast and crew, which was a hotbed of secessionist resentment. Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination also tells the story of what happened to each of these witnesses to history, after the investigation was over—how each one lived their lives after seeing one of America’s greatest presidents shot dead without warning. Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination is an exquisitely detailed look at this famous event from an entirely new angle. It is must reading for anyone fascinated with the saga of Lincoln’s life and the Civil War era.
Download or read book American Brutus written by Michael W. Kauffman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a tale as familiar as our history primers: A deranged actor, John Wilkes Booth, killed Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre, escaped on foot, and eluded capture for twelve days until he met his fiery end in a Virginia tobacco barn. In the national hysteria that followed, eight others were arrested and tried; four of those were executed, four imprisoned. Therein lie all the classic elements of a great thriller. But the untold tale is even more fascinating. Now, in American Brutus, Michael W. Kauffman, one of the foremost Lincoln assassination authorities, takes familiar history to a deeper level, offering an unprecedented, authoritative account of the Lincoln murder conspiracy. Working from a staggering array of archival sources and new research, Kauffman sheds new light on the background and motives of John Wilkes Booth, the mechanics of his plot to topple the Union government, and the trials and fates of the conspirators. Piece by piece, Kauffman explains and corrects common misperceptions and analyzes the political motivation behind Booth’s plan to unseat Lincoln, in whom the assassin saw a treacherous autocrat, “an American Caesar.” In preparing his study, Kauffman spared no effort getting at the truth: He even lived in Booth’s house, and re-created key parts of Booth’s escape. Thanks to Kauffman’s discoveries, readers will have a new understanding of this defining event in our nation’s history, and they will come to see how public sentiment about Booth at the time of the assassination and ever since has made an accurate account of his actions and motives next to impossible–until now. In nearly 140 years there has been an overwhelming body of literature on the Lincoln assassination, much of it incomplete and oftentimes contradictory. In American Brutus, Kauffman finally makes sense of an incident whose causes and effects reverberate to this day. Provocative, absorbing, utterly cogent, at times controversial, this will become the definitive text on a watershed event in American history.
Download or read book Our American Cousin written by Tom Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comedy about the experiences in England of Asa Trenchard of Brattleboro, Vermont.
Download or read book Forbidden Relatives written by Martin Ottenheimer and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENIDO: Laws prohibiting the marriage of relatives -- The reasons for U.S. laws against first cousin marriage -- European laws prohibiting the marriage of relatives -- European views of cousin marriage -- The evolutionary factor -- Biogenetics and first cousin marriage -- Culture and cousin marriage.
Download or read book Our American cousin A drama in 3 acts written by Tom TAYLOR (Dramatist.) and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book We Saw Lincoln Shot written by Timothy S. Good and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the evening of April 14,1865, when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theatre, an entire audience was witness to the tragedy. From diaries, letters, depositions, affidavits, and periodicals, here is a collection of accounts from a variety of theatergoers—who by chance saw one of the truly pivotal events in US history. Providing minute firsthand details recorded over a span of ninety years, We Saw Lincoln Shot explores a subject that will forever be debated. With a sharp focus upon the circumstances reported by one hundred actual witnesses, We Saw Lincoln Shot provides vivid documentation of a momentous evening and exposes errors that have been perpetuated as the assassination has been rendered into written histories.
Download or read book Our American Cousin written by Tom Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The booklet appears to be a facsimile reproduction.
Download or read book The Lincoln Letter written by William Martin and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Fallon and Evangeline Carrington head to Washington, D.C., to compete against dangerous adversaries in a hunt for Abraham Lincoln's Civil War diary, a record that contains information that could change history and influence key elections.
