... fact that this idea of him being "the greatest writer to have ever existed" is a direct result of societal propaganda, and ploys in the world of consumerism- not a plot devised by Shakespeare himself. Having been dead for almost 400 years, the air that is continuously blown into his head isn't strung from himself, or even his works for that ... ...

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... 's foul play and deceptive conduct, Shakespeare demonstrates how duplicity fosters misplaced trust and subsequently abuses the innocent. Shakespeare reflects on the unsettling effects of the deception behind Elizabethan Era's Babington Plot, which aimed to bring Queen Mary to the throne by murdering Elizabeth I. Iago's paradoxical aside 'I am not what I am' immediately discloses his duplicitous nature yet the dramatic irony in ... ...

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