How Shakespeare inspired terrorists
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Shakespeare's Comedy - The Tragedy of Terrorism
Shakespeare's plays are full of sexual violence. Terrorists generally don't read the plays, but they want to understand them. Tragedies have more universal values and human traits. Hamlet has been used still to clumb on the history cast. You now, the catholics are mythologized as a terrorist state. So in sh Shakespeare's we do have a lot of parallels.
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