Shakespeare and politics

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Shakespeare and politics includes the many political insights by Shakespeare in his works, most prominently in his Julius Caesar but also in many of his other plays, including Macbeth, King Lear, and Hamlet.

Shakespeare's Othello, with scenes in Venice, Italy, has an interesting contrast between the republic there and the monarchy in England. Othello is also racially controversial today.

Shakespeare lived under a monarchy in England.