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tried to kidnap President Lincoln before, but he failed to do so he planned on bringing Lincoln to the South and demanding peace, Boothe had recently heard about the appearance the Lincolns would be given at the Ford 's theatre, he knew the Lincoln’s would have a box inside the theatre where he would sit . Although he committed the act of assassinating President Lincoln he did not plan on how he was going to get through to him,the obstacles he would have to overcome, he just knew he would do whatever

*Lincolns P.O.V* “Are you coming dear?” Mary yelled up the stairs, for the third time. She was waiting to see if I was ready yet. “Not yet, I’ll be down in a minute!” I called back, not wanting to agitate her. Although, she was pushing me to get out of the door, I knew she was the one still getting ready. You may ask, “Why would you do such a thing? Why would you allow your wife to hurry you up when she’s the one not ready?” Well, I love my wife. I love our marriage, my children, my life….our life;

Fichandler, D.C’s regional theater forerunner observed that “[O]ur descendants will ask how we came to do this with our theatre and why we waited so long and labored so confusingly”. The honest answer to these questions

with his audiences. At the same time Booth became more enamored with the southern way of life, which helped to refine his southern political views. Booth also attended many important social functions in Richmond . Booth briefly left the Richmond Theatre Company in 1859. He joined the Richmond Grays, gaining his only official military experience. He enlisted on November 20, 1859 with the sole intention of witnessing the December hanging of the fiery abolitionist John Brown in Charles Town, Virginia

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Disguise is the source of theatrical appeal in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Discuss the validity of this statement. Michael Pennington describes Twelfth Night as a typical Romantic Comedy with a sublime sense of inconcsequentiality amidst the lyrical nature that plagues its environment. Therefore it is none other than that of a romantic comedy, and by definition, seeks the usage of a most humourous yet vital factor that shapes the events that are to occur; Disguise. Disguise indeed gives rise

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Love's Labour's Lost The Elizabethans thought of it merely as "a wittie and pleasant comedie" ; Samuel Johnson remarked that "all the editors have concurred to censure [it]" ; and William Hazlitt opined, "If we were to part with any of the author's comedies, it should be this." It was not until well into the twentieth century that Love's Labour's Lost really came into its own, and this fact alone may be enough to make a case for it as Shakespeare's most forward-looking play. It is its ending