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Our American Cousin

by Tom Taylor

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First published
1869
Pages
103
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Read by Bev J Stevens, Beth Thomas (1974-2020), Michele Eaton and others · 2 h 10 min · 3 parts

  1. Act 1

    49:57

  2. Act 2

    37:50

  3. Act 3

    42:43

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Tom Taylor's three-act comedy, first staged in 1858, sends a rough, plain-spoken American named Asa Trenchard to England to claim a family inheritance, where his manners collide with those of his snobbish aristocratic relatives. The plot about a mortgaged estate and a scheming lawyer is mostly a frame for broad farce, and audiences came above all for Lord Dundreary, a dim, whisker-sporting nobleman whose garbled sayings became a Victorian craze. The play was a transatlantic hit for years. It also carries a somber place in American history as the show Abraham Lincoln was watching at Ford's Theatre on the night he was shot in April 1865.

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Tom Taylor

Tom Taylor (1817-1880) was a prolific English playwright, critic, and editor of the humor magazine Punch. He wrote or adapted around a hundred plays, from farces to melodramas such as The Ticket-of-Leave Man, and worked for years as a civil servant alongside his busy literary career.

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Book facts

First published
1869
Reading time
About 90 minutes
Pages
103
Language
English
Genre
Theater
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Bev J Stevens, Beth Thomas (1974-2020), Michele Eaton and others