Him not being political is just another unfashionable weakness
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Actually, given that many of his histories were written about monarchs whom the current monarchy would have had one opinion or another on, and given that the incumbent monarchs would have watched the plays in court, and also given that some characters names had to be changed ...
... so as not to cause offence to the ancestors of the name (Oldcastle becoming Falstaff for example), I'd say that Shakespeare was very political - though that's not to say he doesn't transcend those political circumstances
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I would call it pragmatic rather than political. I don't see any political convictions in his writings (which is why he's good).
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Cioran: "Shakespeare, by a stroke of luck, never 'served' anything."
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What could be less timely?
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