Similarities between Lincoln and Tupac.

[Linda Anderson]

(10-12-2013 05:33 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  The earliest known literary use of the word "assassination" is in Macbeth (1605).

It's odd (or maybe not) how many times Macbeth comes up in the assassination story. John Wilkes Booth quotes Macbeth when he wrote to Dr. Stuart, "The sauce in [to] meat is ceremony; meeting were bare without it." Fanny Seward wrote, "I have supped full on horrors" to describe assassination night in her diary which is interesting because the quote should be "I have supped full with horrors."

The following is from "Lincoln, Macbeth, and the Moral Imagination."

"Lincoln was drawn to Macbeth’s lines about sleep. In April 1865, after a visit to the headquarters of the army at City Point, Virginia, Lincoln returned to Washington aboard the steamer River Queen with Senators Sumner and James Harlan and a young French nobleman, the Marquis de Chambrun. For several hours Lincoln read passages from Macbeth aloud to the party.35 Chambrun and Sumner remembered that Lincoln dwelt particularly on Macbeth’s lines about Duncan, which he read over twice:
'Duncan is in his grave;
After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well;
Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison,
Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing
Can touch him further. . . .'"

http://www.nhinet.org/beran.htm