Abraham Lincoln a Play - Softcover

John Drinkwater

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9350330628 ISBN 13: 9789350330623

Publisher: Maple Press, 2010

Synopsis

Note In using for purposes of drama a personality of so wide and recent a fame as that of A braham Lincoln, I feel that one or two observations are due to my readers and critics. First, my purpose is that not of the historian but of the dramatist. The historical presentation of my hero has been faithfully made in many volumes; notably, in England, by Lord Charnwood in a monograph that gives a masterly analysis of Lincoln scareer and character and is, it seems to me, a model of what the historians work should be. To this book I am gratefully indebted for the material of my play. But while I have, I hope, done nothiyig to traverse history, I have freely telescoped its events, and imposed invention upon its movement, in such ways as I needed to shape the dramatic significance of my subject. I should add that the fictitious Burnet Hook is admitted to the historical company of Lincoln s Cabinet for the purpose of embodying certain forces that were antagonistic to the President. This was a dramatic necessity, and I chose rather to invent a character for the purpose than to invest any single known personage with sinister qualities about which there might be dispute. Secondly, my purpose is, again, that of the dramatist, not that of the political philosopher.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Maple Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 9350330628
• ISBN 13: 9789350330623
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112