Lincoln and Booth on Shakespeare

[David Lockmiller]

(04-19-2019 03:05 AM)Steve Wrote:  I thought this was an interesting article:

https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/20...m-new-book

On his visit to Fort Monroe, Lincoln borrowed a copy of Shakespeare’s works from an officer and read it aloud. He read passages from many plays, but the officer recalled one passage most vividly. Lincoln, who was mourning the loss of a son, read one of Constance’s monologues from King John, in which she mourns the loss of her son: “Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me.”