Lincoln and Shakespeare

[Gene C]

Welcome to Shakespeare Theater with tonights guest star, Abraham Lincoln and family. Our presentation is entitled "Favorite Quotes From Macbeth.

The scene: The Lincoln Dinner table
Mary: Dinners ready, come and get it.
Abe: Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Scene II: A busy street scene
Mary walks out of Diller's Drug Store heading towards Lincoln's law office
Herndon: By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes

Scene: Laundry day at the Lincoln household
Mary: Out, damned spot! out, I say!—One: two: why,
then, 'tis time to do't.—Hell is murky!—Fie, my
lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we
fear who knows it, when none can call our power
to account?

Scene: White House hallway as Tad hitches his goat to the cart
Tad: Look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under it.

Scene III - Lincoln at the doctors office talking about Mary
Lincoln: Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart?
Doctor: Give her two of these blue pills and call me in the morning