''Lincoln'' is a 1906 four-act

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by the American actor Benjamin Chapin, known as an

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impersonator. It portrays key events from the life of the assassinated president. It appeared with Chapin in the title role, at the

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where it followed straight on from Thomas Dixon Jr.'s controversial ''

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'', which glorified the Ku Klux Klan. The ''

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'' considered Chapin's play as "an antidote" to the previous production.Babington & Barr p.30 Elements of the play were later used in the 1917 '' The Lincoln Cycle'' of

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starring Chapin.

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Bibliography

* Bruce Babington & Charles Barr. ''The Call of the Heart: John M. Stahl and Hollywood Melodrama''. Indiana University Press, 2018. 1906 plays Plays set in the 19th century American plays Broadway plays Cultural depictions of Abraham Lincoln {{1900s-play-stub