John Wilkes Booth (left) dressed as Mark Antony in an 1864 play of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” whose assassination influenced him in killing Lincoln. [800 x 1066]
But why didn’t the actor who played Brutus do that?
TheNextBattalion
See kids? Shakespearean plays lead kids to violence. All this time we thought it was video games. ;P
CaesarSeizer
Slight clarification— while Booth is dressed as Marc Antony in this photo, his favorite role was that of Brutus, and it’s that one which would serve as an early inspiration for the assassination of Lincoln
tomas_paulicek
But why didn’t the actor who played Brutus do that?
TheNextBattalion
See kids? Shakespearean plays lead kids to violence. All this time we thought it was video games. ;P
CaesarSeizer
Slight clarification— while Booth is dressed as Marc Antony in this photo, his favorite role was that of Brutus, and it’s that one which would serve as an early inspiration for the assassination of Lincoln