Read the excerpt from act iii of hamlet. rosencrantz: the cease of majesty dies not alone, but, like a gulf doth draw what’s near it with it; it is a massy wheel, fix’d on the summit of the highest mount, to whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things are mortis’d and adjoin’d; which, when it falls, each small annexment, petty consequence, attends the boisterous ruin. never alone did the king sigh, but with a general groan. which statement best explains how the excerpt exemplifies elizabethan drama? the lives of saints are celebrated. political power is discussed. rosencrantz tells a biblical story. rosencrantz recalls the details of his life.

In the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet, the statement that best explains how the excerpt exemplifies Elizabethan drama is political power is discussed. In this excerpt, Rosencrantz speaks about how what happens to a king is felt by every person in the kingdom. In Elizabethan times there was a debate about the divine right of the monarchy and other political issues. Most of Shakespeare's plays deal with legitimate or illegitimate princes, the role of religion in politics, succession and what makes a good king among other themes.

political power is discussed.

brutus overlooks that the majority of the crowd served julius caesar the military general. he appeals to their citizenship as romans by calling them first by that name in his salutation: "romans, countrymen, lovers." mark antony, however, speaks in terms understood by the military, by calling them first by, "friends, romans, countrymen." he recalls not only caesar the general but caesar the friend, whose body they see covered with stab wounds.