Lincoln (play)

Lincoln is a historical play in four acts by the American actor and playwright Benjamin Chapin. Chapin was a celebrated Abraham Lincoln impersonator, and his play centered around three key events from the life of the American president: the 1861 defeat of Fort Sumter which initiated the American Civil War; the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863; and the last day of Lincoln's life prior to his assassination at the Ford's Theatre.^[1] The events themselves were not actually seen on stage, but rather Lincoln's reactions to news of events from within the White House in conversations with his advisors and his family.^[2]