>>6108611>>6108637>If "Brevity is the soul of wit..."Then your penis must be a riot, etc.
Did you know that this line, spoken by Polonius (sometimes seen as a personification of Poland in the Elizabethan era) there is a theory that Hamlet is actually about regime change.
I forget where I first read this analysis, but think about how the play begins with all these supernatural rumours, unrest stirred in the court of Denmark / Elsinore amidst the haunted backdrop of armed conflict between the old king Hamlet's father and Fortinbras / Norway... Hamlet is converted by these rumours into an agent of antagonism nihilism and death (admittedly an indecisive, procrastinating one) whilst the court absent him is in fact quite merry, in joyous contentment.
By the end of the play, the entire ruling house of Denmark, its heirs poisoned / stabbed / dead, the foreigner Fortinbras arrives, he just rolls in and claims everything.
It is how you invisibly perpetrate regime change, hehe
In case you think Shakespeare was unfamiliar with court intrigue, recall that he had to change the name of the famous character Falstaff in the Henriad, from the original Oldcastle, because descendants of the actual historical personnage threatened him (read about this Protestant martyrdom / treachery intrigue and political / Catholic religious conflict background in depth here)
https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/henry-iv-part-2/historical-background-sir-john-falstaff-and-sir-john-oldcastle/Another common citation is how the Jew Shylock in the Merchant Of Venice was inspired by this Jewish physician to Queen Elizabeth
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roderigo_Lopesexecuted after he discovered and treated some venereal diseases amongst Elizabethan courtiers (it is possible that he was indeed a spy for Spain, albeit innocent of the ultimate treasonous charge of which he was accused). Finally, in The Tempest, there is an actual subplot of regime change (overthrow of Prospero's island plotted between Trinculo, Stephano, and the deformed indigenous native Caliban) but in the play itself it is performed as a drunken comedy.
