This is a six page paper comparing Machiavelli's great work to Shakespeare's most depressing
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play.
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Prince loomed large in Renaissance thought. Niccolo Machiavelli�s
guide to seizing power and holding onto it was a revelatory text and
generally the peoples of Europe were both excited and scandalized by
the text. In Henry VI, part III, Shakespeare outright uses the term
�murderous Machiavel� (3.2.193). The Machiavellian influence was
felt both in reputation and in the actual behavior of characters in
the Shakespearean
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