Booth and Brutus: A Chat with John Andrews of the Shakespeare Guild

By Ellen Berkovitch

Published April 13, 2017 at 11:08 AM MDT

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152 years ago tomorrow, John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC. John Andrews, president of the Shakespeare Guild, explains how Booth modeled his actions on those of the literary-historical Roman figure Brutus, assassin of Julius Caesar.