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King James of England had recently married Anne of Denmark. That's probably all there was to Shakespeare's choice of what ancient myth to adapt. There were rumors that Anne might have been secretly Catholic, and the subtle ongoing battle in the play between Protestantism and Catholicism might be a reference to that.

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