Abstract
The circumstances and gravity of the moral choices faced by a statesman like Abraham Lincoln are difficult to grasp. Those who have “the power to hurt” are seemingly bound by nothing but their private conscience as a guide to action. Lincoln himself chose constitutional order over other alternatives, but why then was his intense private study of Shakespeare devoted to plays addressing tyranny? This article examines two of Shakespeare's tyrants, both uninhibited by constitutional or obvious moral strictures, in order to highlight Lincoln's own political moderation.
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