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Murder of the nance in Hamlet, Richard II, total heat VIII, Macbeth and Julius Caesar Kings argon everywhere in Shakespeare, from Hamlet to Richard the Second, from Henry the Eighth to Macbeth more of the plays contain a central element of a king or autocratic head of state such as Julius Caesar, for example. They focus to a greater extent specifically on the nature of that persons power, especially on the question of removing it what it means on both a political and mental level, how it can be achieved, and what entrust happen afterwards. This is not surprising, considering the times Shakespeare was sustenance in with the question of who ruled and where their potentiality came from being ever more increasingly asked in Elizabethan and Jacobean times the observations he makes are especially pertinent.Kings and kingship also lend themselves well to turn the king is a symbol of the order (or disorder) of the day and a man who possesses (almost) absolute authority and the sta tus that accompanies that, whilst in contrast he is also a human being with the ordinary weaknesses of that condition. Shakespeare is also said to have loved the drama of killing according to legend he would make a idiom when he killed a calf in his fathers abattoir (Richard Wilson A Brute Part.) The hammy image of sacrifice is particularly prevalent in Julius Caesar Brutus says Let us be sacrificers but not butchers, Caius.We all stand up against the tincture of CaesarAnd in the spirit of men there is no bloodO then that we could come by Caesars spirit,And not dismember Caesar. But, alasCaesar must(prenominal) bleed for it. ( II.i.166-171 )Many images of sacrifice are present throughout the play, such as the servant returning... ... doubt it and if it does go something else equally fine will take its place. It will be the same thing in a different dress. You cant invent anything finer than kingship, the idea of the king. This may be received for many more than just the dra matist, Kings, Queens, and other more modern demagogues uphold widespread throughout the world today and we are still farther from the fairer, truly democratic world order the revolutionaries of the seventeenth century and many more since then have strived for.Works Cited.Craig,E.G./ ON THE ART OF domain HarvesterDollimore,J./ RADICAL TRAGEDY Harvester.Freer,C./ POETICS OF JACOBEAN DRAMA Hopkins University Press.Kirsch,J./ ROYAL self-importance Putnams.Knight,G.W./ IMPERIAL THEME Methuen.Knight,G.W./ SOVEREIGN FLOWER Methuen.Mack,M./KILLING THE KING Yale Univ. Press.Wilson,R./A BRUTE PART (Lecture handout)