Lincoln and the theater, and theater in Lincoln's days

[Dave Taylor]

I've spent a good deal of time this morning looking for something I recall reading regarding when Lincoln saw Booth play in The Marble Heart. Like Roger, I remember reading some discussion between researchers that questioned the whole incident of Booth being "sharp" to Lincoln. Though I have not come up with what I originally read, using Eva's clue I consulted American Brutus and here's what Kauffman has to say about it, "Later accounts would mention angry glares and insulting comments, but there was none of that. Booth just slogged through the performance, and made it, in the words of Lincoln's secretary, "more tame than otherwise"....Fanciful accounts were written long after the assassination, but without benefit of contemporary evidence."

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Eva,

You can see part of the stage setting for Our American Cousin in this photograph:

http://www.fold3.com/image/269870320/