Abraham Lincoln

A Play

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Theatre, Performing Arts, History, Americas, United States
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Author: John Drinkwater ISBN: 9788828314288
Publisher: Dead Dodo Publishing Limited Publication: April 23, 2018
Imprint: Language: English
Author: John Drinkwater
ISBN: 9788828314288
Publisher: Dead Dodo Publishing Limited
Publication: April 23, 2018
Imprint:
Language: English

John Drinkwater was an early 20th century English poet and playwright. After writing the drama Abraham Lincoln he wrote similar plays, Mary Stuart and Oliver Cromwell. Abraham Lincoln is a somewhat fictionalized play by John Drinkwater about the 16th President of the United States. Drinkwater's first great success, it opened in England in 1918 and on Broadway in 1919.

In Drinkwater's play Lincoln is depicted in 7 significant roles: husband; father; war leader; humanitarian; statesman; hero; and murder victim. Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States. His strength of character and brilliant mind helped keep the United States from falling apart. His tragic assassination robbed the US of a great man.

A rare depiction of events in the life of a U.S. President by a British playwright, the play was a great success in its day, and was produced on radio by Orson Welles on August 15, 1938, on his program, The Mercury Theatre on the Air. In 1924, a two-reel sound film version of the play, also starring McGlynn, was filmed by Lee De Forest in his Phonofilm sound-on-film process. On May 26, 1952, the play was presented on television on the anthology series Studio One. The television version was notable for featuring actor James Dean in a small, but very noticeable role. The production has survived on kinescope, available at the Internet Archive.

Drinkwater's play is rarely revived today. The play covers events in Lincoln's Presidency from his election in 1860 to his assassination, but leaves out most of the events in his private life.

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John Drinkwater was an early 20th century English poet and playwright. After writing the drama Abraham Lincoln he wrote similar plays, Mary Stuart and Oliver Cromwell. Abraham Lincoln is a somewhat fictionalized play by John Drinkwater about the 16th President of the United States. Drinkwater's first great success, it opened in England in 1918 and on Broadway in 1919.

In Drinkwater's play Lincoln is depicted in 7 significant roles: husband; father; war leader; humanitarian; statesman; hero; and murder victim. Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States. His strength of character and brilliant mind helped keep the United States from falling apart. His tragic assassination robbed the US of a great man.

A rare depiction of events in the life of a U.S. President by a British playwright, the play was a great success in its day, and was produced on radio by Orson Welles on August 15, 1938, on his program, The Mercury Theatre on the Air. In 1924, a two-reel sound film version of the play, also starring McGlynn, was filmed by Lee De Forest in his Phonofilm sound-on-film process. On May 26, 1952, the play was presented on television on the anthology series Studio One. The television version was notable for featuring actor James Dean in a small, but very noticeable role. The production has survived on kinescope, available at the Internet Archive.

Drinkwater's play is rarely revived today. The play covers events in Lincoln's Presidency from his election in 1860 to his assassination, but leaves out most of the events in his private life.

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