A Wonderful Find ...

[Francis Farrell]

: What advantage did he from his point of view have from being shot or arrested, tried, and hanged rather than "directing" his end himself?"

Might I propose that Mr. Booth did in fact direct the final scene?

Macbeth, Antony, Hamlet all choose the ending for themselves. all to the event any of are - were masters of their own fate.

Booth chose to make it an end fitting for the tragedian. he went not into that night quietly, but chose to step boldly .

"The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it."

Does not this apply to J. Wilkes Booth? Booth after all thought of AL as a despot and he had to play the role of Brutus , and Cassius and act for those who wanted to protect Rome (The Union) from dictatorship and despotism.

He fulfilled the role= and no doubt at his own funeral he would have understood this from the Bard of Scotland (slightly out of context but applicable)

A prince can mak a belted knight,
A marquis, duke, an' a' that;
But an honest man's abon his might,
Gude faith, he maunna fa' that!
For a' that, an' a' that,
Their dignities an' a' that;
The pith o' sense, an' pride o' worth,
Are higher rank than a' that.

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: What advantage did he from his point of view have from being shot or arrested, tried, and hanged rather than "directing" his end himself?"

Might I propose that Mr. Booth did in fact direct the final scene?

Macbeth, Antony, Hamlet all choose the ending for themselves. all to the event any of are - were masters of their own fate.

Booth chose to make it an end fitting for the tragedian. he went not into that night quietly, but chose to step boldly .

"The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it."

Does not this apply to J. Wilkes Booth? Booth after all thought of AL as a despot and he had to play the role of Brutus , and Cassius and act for those who wanted to protect Rome (The Union) from dictatorship and despotism.

He fulfilled the role= and no doubt at his own funeral he would have understood this from the Bard of Scotland (slightly out of context but applicable)

A prince can mak a belted knight,
A marquis, duke, an' a' that;
But an honest man's abon his might,
Gude faith, he maunna fa' that!
For a' that, an' a' that,
Their dignities an' a' that;
The pith o' sense, an' pride o' worth,
Are higher rank than a' that.