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Abe Lincoln In Illinois
by Robert Emmet Sherwood, Robert E Sherwood

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Highlights

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Large Cast

7

Female

25

Male
90 mins Unit Set/Multiple Settings American

Awards & Recognition

Pulitzer Prize

Winner! 1939 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Synopsis

THE STORY: The play shows in a series of scenes the critical years of Lincoln's early manhood up to the moment of his election as president.

We see the backwoodsman, a failure at shopkeeping, but a great favorite with friends and neighbors, slowly

Themes American Drama

Publication

Publisher Dramatists Play Service
Year 1966
Binding Paperback
Pages 72
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822200017
ISBN-10 0822200015
LCC PS3537.H825 A63 1966

Abe Lincoln In Illinois is a American play written by Robert Emmet Sherwood and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York (1966).

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