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    Our American Cousin is a three-act play by English playwright Tom Taylor. It is a farce featuring awkward, boorish American Asa Trenchard, who is introduced...
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    Our American Cousin is a 2008 opera in three acts by American composer Eric Sawyer with libretto by poet John Shoptaw. The opera depicts the assassination...
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    Edward Askew Sothern (category American male stage actors)
    actor known for his comic roles in Britain and America, particularly Lord Dundreary in Our American Cousin. He was also known for his many practical jokes...
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    Lord Dundreary is a character of the 1858 English play Our American Cousin by Tom Taylor. He is a good-natured, brainless aristocrat. The role was created...
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  • Oh, Mary! (category American plays)
    Lincoln's assassination, which occurred while he and Mary were watching Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre. The show portrays Mary as someone who longs to...
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    Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (category Use American English from March 2017)
    United States, was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched...
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    Tad Lincoln (category American people of English descent)
    while his parents attended the performance of Tom Taylor's play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre. That night, his father was assassinated by Confederate...
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    Ford's Theatre (category Use American English from March 2017)
    box where Lincoln was watching a performance of Tom Taylor's play Our American Cousin, slipped the single-shot, 5.87-inch derringer from his pocket and...
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    wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, were in this box watching a production of Our American Cousin. Booth's spur was allegedly caught by one of the flags when he began...
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    in the United States since at least the 1890s. In the 1858 play Our American Cousin, attended by Abraham Lincoln on the night of his assassination, the...
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