Our American Cousin
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Our American Cousin is a three-act comedy play by the English playwright Tom Taylor. It is a farce about an awkward, boorish American man named Asa Trenchard who is introduced to his aristocratic Engl
Joseph Jefferson as Asa Trenchard, the titular American cousin
Edward Sothern as Lord Dundreary, sporting his iconic "Dundrearies"-style sideburns
Laura Keene as Florence Trenchard
Playwright Tom Taylor
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., one month into his second term and towards the conclusion of the American C
Our American Cousin
…history, Our American Cousin became notorious as the play that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was watching at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer and stage actor who attempted to time his gunshot with the audience's laughter on a particularly famous…
John Wilkes Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre
A Carte de visite of the actor John Wilkes Booth, c. 1865
The Surratt boarding house, where the conspirators planned
Ford's Theatre