Mary Todd Lincoln's faux pas (plural), worse, and much worse

[Linda Anderson]

BTW - which was his favorite Shakespeare play? Macbeth or Hamlet? At least I know which is my favorite Shakespeare quote of the ones mentioned by A. L.: "There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough - hew them how we will" (Hamlet, act 5, scene 2)
(And I wonder if he ever saw my favorite plays, "The Mercant of Venice" and Lessing's "Nathan the Wise"?)

According to this article, Macbeth was Lincoln's favorite play.

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