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*** Or God's "I am who am" answer to Moses in Exodus 3:14.
** More obviously: these days, a black man marrying a white woman would not raise many eyebrows. Back then, not so much.
* [[Vindicated By History]]: Even more than usual for Shakespeare - he subverted a lot of [[Forgotten Trope|Forgotten Tropes]] at a time when a [[ClicheCliché Storm]] was expected. Thomas Rymer's ''Short View of Tragedy'' in 1693 summed up the response to, for instance, a soldier as a villain rather than an honest man, and a dropped handkerchief leading to multiple murders rather than a comical misunderstanding.
 
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