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A 5 page paper comparing Machiavelli's 'Prince' and Shakespeare's 'Prince Hamlet.' The writer feels that both works represented important changing points in world culture. No additional sources cited.
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political thought, and The Prince one of its most discussed works. The debate began during the authors life and continues to this day. No work of the Renaissance is more
often quoted from than is "The Prince." Certainly no other political scientist is referred to more than Machiavelli, whose words have become familiar to students as well as political
scientists. Shakespeare is, of course, Shakespeare! "Hamlet," with the possible exception of "Romeo and Juliet" is the best-known and the most often performed of any of his works.
"The Prince" became famous during its time but was even more discussed and villafied after Machiavellis death. Catholic writers, both before, during,
and after the Reformation, attacked him for being amoral, immoral, and anti-Catholic. Such criticisms were not mild. For example, Cardinal Reginald Pole contended that Machiavelli was an
agent of the devil and The Prince proceeded from a hellish mind. He even went so far as to claim that Protestant rulers, such as Henry VIII of Britain,
were inspired by the anti-Catholicism of "The Prince." As a result, "The Prince" became as enthusiastically discussed in Britain as it had been on the continent. References to Machiavelli are
pervasive throughout Elizabethan drama. In Shakespeares "Othehllo," Iago is often described as Shakespeares vision of the perfect Machiavellian. In Othello, Iago says:
"For when my outward action doth demonstrate the native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, tis not long after
but I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at; I am not what I am" (Othello IV
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