Christmas with the Lincoln family in Springfield

[Eva Elisabeth]

Instead of reading Macbeth or Hamlet, A. Lincoln will perhaps have turned to Twelfth Night.

Twelfth Night (or, What You Will) is believed to have been written by Shakespeare as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The title refers to the twelfth night after Christmas Day, "the evening of the fifth of January, preceding Twelfth Day, the eve of the Epiphany, formerly the last day of the Christmas festivities and observed as a time of merrymaking" (*).
On this day the King and all those who were high would become the peasants and vice versa, servants dressed up as their masters, men as women and so forth (as origin of the play's gender confusion-driven plot). Midnight signaled the end of his rule and the world would return to normal.

I'm sure all the Lincolns would have enjoyed changing roles (parents <=> kids) for one day!

Probably the Lincolns would have enjoyed this:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XHMyKyiSe8U...HMyKyiSe8U

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=diG9jU6L6fU...iG9jU6L6fU

* http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth_Night_(holiday)