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Title: Our American Cousin

Author: Tom Taylor

Release Date: February, 2002 [Etext #3158]
Posting Date: October 12, 2009

Language: English

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Produced by The Levin family

OUR AMERICAN COUSIN

A Drama, in 3 Acts.

By Tom Taylor

Transcriber's Note:

This etext was produced by the Levin family, Englewood, CO. Like many
plays, there is no authoritative version and it evolved over the course
of time, indeed in multiple directions. The 1869 printing upon which
this etext is primarily based was poorly printed and we have corrected
outright punctuation and grammatical errors while maintaining its
original, whimisical use of capitalization and punctuation. This version
contains very few "Dundrearyisms" such as "birds of a feather gather no
moss" for which the play gained much of its popular appeal.

Abraham Lincoln was watching this play when he was assassinated. (Act
III, halfway through Scene 2.)

ORIGINAL CAST OF CHARACTERS. [Our American Cousin.]

Laura Keene's Theatre, New York, October 15, 1858.

Lord Dundreary Mr. E. A. Sothern
Asa Trenchard '' Jos. Jefferson
Sir Edward Trenchard '' E. Varrey
Capt. De Boots '' Clinton
Harry Vernon '' M. Levick
Abel Murcott '' C.W. Couldock
Mr. Coyle '' J.G. Burnett
Mr. Buddicombe '' McDouall
Mr. Binny '' Peters
John Wickens '' Brown
Mrs. Mountchessington Miss Mary Wells
Florence Trenchard '' Laura Keene
Mary '' Sara Stevens
Augusta '' E. Germon
Georgina Mrs. Sothern
Sharpe Miss Flynn
Skillet Mrs. M. Levick

OUR AMERICAN COUSIN.

ACT I.

Scene 1--Drawing room in 3. Trenchard Manor, C. D., backed by interior,
discover