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Mary is a fictional version of the real Mary Lincoln, widow of President Abraham Lincoln. Ten years after Lincoln’s assassination, she is hospitalized at a sanitarium in Illinois for various mental illnesses. She is deeply bitter and paranoid, convinced that those around her are out to ruin her. Her oldest son, Robert, has come to visit her. She resents Robert for testifying at the insanity hearing that ultimately led to her being institutionalized, and Robert resents her for disgracing the
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Start: Robert: Mother…your stitches are too wide for that embroidery, Mother. And you’re going to jab yourself with that needle, if you aren’t careful.
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End: Robert: Well what are you? Are you anything else? Mary: No, Robert. That’s all I am.
Citation: Thomas Cullinan, Mrs. Lincoln, Dramatists Play Service, 1969, pp. 56-70.
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