Fratricide the fratricide would often come back to haunt Caracalla. There are many recorded fratricides in Persia. The most famous story is about Cyrus the Great's sons where Cambyses II killed his brother Bardiya. Also there are stories about the sons of Artaxerxes I, Xerxes II, Sogdianus and Darius II where they fought for the throne. Also there were many fratricides in the Parthian Empire and the Sassanid Empire. In the Ottoman Empire a policy of judicial royal fratricide was introduced by Sultan Mehmet II whose grandfather Mehmet I had to fight a long and bloody civil war against his brothers
Fratricide Punished willingness to disregard the importance of Shakespeare's authorship in the text, in accordance with earlier understandings of authorship, a constant facet of "Hamlet" discussions. This is not to say that "Fratricide Punished" is without influence on theatrical productions. Both Q1 Hamlet and "Fratricide Punished" place their scenes in a different order than do the Q2 and folio versions of "Hamlet", and this may have inspired stage directors to reorder their own productions of "Hamlet" in turn. A version of "Fratricide Punished" was performed at the NADA theater in New York City for the "Hamlet" Festival of 1994 alongside a rap