![]() ![]() ![]() In the late 1850s, while they both are running for the United States Senate, he and Stephen A. On the day of his wedding, though, he runs away from her, and stays away for two years, until a chance encounter with an old friend and his family makes him think about responsibility, both to his family and to the country. After Lincoln begins practicing in Springfield, he becomes engaged to Mary Todd, whose ambitions for his political career are greater than his own. He is in love with Ann Rutledge, but when her fiance drops her and Lincoln has a slight chance with her, she dies. He is popular with the men of New Salem, where he delivers mail. He is already haunted by death, having helped his father make a coffin for his mother when she died out in the prairie wilderness. Even at such a young age, he is financially destitute, having invested in a business with a man who ran away with all of the funds and feeling responsible for paying back all creditors. In the beginning, Lincoln is in his early twenties and being tutored in English grammar at night, using a variety of texts for examples. As a result, every scene of the play either has Lincoln in it or has people talking about him. ![]() This play is about the formative years of Abraham Lincoln, explaining how he grew in outlook and popularity from a simple countryman to the president of the United States. Sherwood presents a vision that fits in with the legends of the sixteenth president that have been told to generations of American schoolchildren, but it gives these legends a human face. ![]()
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