Our American Cousin

by Tom Taylor

EN·~1 hours·8 chapters

Chapters

8 total

OUR AMERICAN COUSIN - A Drama, in 3 Acts.

0:02

By Tom Taylor

0:43

Contents

0:00

ORIGINAL CAST OF CHARACTERS. [Our American Cousin.]

0:37

OUR AMERICAN COUSIN.

0:01

ACT I.

40:35

ACT II

29:38

ACT III.

35:16

Description

Note of interest: This was the play Abraham Lincoln was watching when he was assassinated.

Details

Language

Duration

~1 hours (102K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Release date

2002-04-01

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Comedies Americans -- England -- Drama Aristocracy (Social class) -- England -- Drama

About the author

Tom Taylor

1817–1880

A busy Victorian man of letters, he wrote popular plays, edited the humorous magazine Punch, and helped shape 19th-century British theatre. He is especially remembered for Our American Cousin, the comedy that was being performed the night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.

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