What are the common themes in Shakespeare plays?

What similarities do we see in main characters?

Death, Love, Politics, Money, Religion, Revenge, Suicide, Cross Dressing... a full list would be near endless.

The Histories

Trope and Allegory: Themes Common to Dante and Shakespeare $173.14 At odds with the view that Shakespeare was a religious skeptic who only paid lip service to religious beliefs to pacify his less perceptive audience, Francis Fergusson investigates a relationship between Shakespeare and Dante, whom he sees as writing out of the same classical Christian heritage. Fergusson explores analogous themes from several Shakespearean plays and parts of Dante’s Divine ...