A professor of mine recently remarked that Shakespeare could be read and understood as a political theorist as much as a poet and a dreamer. Anyone else who might think this way have any articles or books on the subject, or is this party fodder on the lines of possible worlds (”what if”), popular metaphysics (”how many angels does it take to screw in a lightbulb”) and the like?

A professor of mine recently remarked that Shakespeare could be read and understood as a political theorist as much as a poet and a dreamer. Anyone else who might think this way have any articles or books on the subject, or is this party fodder on the lines of possible worlds (”what if”), popular metaphysics (”how many angels does it take to screw in a lightbulb”) and the like?