Liam O'Flaherty, "The Sniper" (1923) Ernest Hemingway, "The Killers" (1927) Robert A. Heinlein, Revolt in 2100 (serialized in 1940, published as a book in 1953) Philip K. Dick, "The Last of the Masters" (1954) – science fiction novella in which the last dictator on earth is assassinated by anarchists, successfully overthrowing the last government David Stanley, "Assassins List" (2014) short story with a percent of the sales donated to injured marines charities. Plays and operas William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3 (1590) – play about English King Henry VI Christopher Marlowe, Edward II (1592) – play about English King Edward II William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (probably 1599) – play about Julius Caesar William Shakespeare, Hamlet (between 1600 and summer 1602) – play about Hamlet William Shakespeare, Macbeth (between 1603 and 1606) – play about King Duncan Lope de Vega, Fuente Ovejuna (between 1612 and 1614) – play about the village of Fuente Ovejuna Pierre Corneille, Cinna (1639) – play about Augustus and Cinna Jean Racine, Britannicus (1669) – play about Britannicus Takeda Izumo, Miyoshi Shōraku, and Namiki Senryū, Kanadehon Chūshingura (1748) – puppet play about the Forty-seven Ronin Friedrich Schiller, Mary Stuart (1800) – play about Mary, Queen of Scots and Queen Elizabeth I Zacharias Werner, Attila, König der Hunnen (1809) – tragedy about Attila the Hun Victor Hugo, Le roi s'amuse (1832) – scathing, banned play about French King Francis I (and, indirectly, King Louis-Philippe) Eugène Scribe and Daniel Auber, Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué (1833) – opera about Swedish King Gustav III In Polish poet Juliusz Słowacki's 1833 play Kordian, the teen title hero plots to assassinate Russian Tsar Nicholas I—but fails to carry through. Giuseppe Bardari and Gaetano Donizetti, Maria Stuarda (1835) – opera based on Schiller's play Lőrinc Tóth, Die beiden Lászlós (a.k.a. Két László, Both Laszlos) (1839) – play about Ulrich of Celje and László Hunyadi Antonio García Gutiérrez, Simón Bocanegra (1843) – play about Simone Boccanegra Béni Egressy and Ferenc Erkel, Hunyadi László (1844) – opera about Ulrich of Celje and László Hunyadi, based on Lőrinc Tóth's play Temistocle Solera (and Francesco Maria Piave) and Giuseppe Verdi, Attila (1846) – opera based on Werner's tragedy Francesco Maria Piave and Giuseppe Verdi, Macbeth (1847) – opera based on Shakespeare's tragedy Francesco Maria Piave and Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto (1851) – opera based on Hugo's Le roi s'amuse, with a fictional Duke of Mantua replacing French