The Merry Wives of Windsor in 1597, after which controversy over the original naming of Falstaff (he was originally the historic Sir John Oldcastle, which presumably did not please Oldcastle's descendants) forced Shakespeare to rename the character. It appears that the joke in V,v,85–90 is that Oldcastle/Falstaff incriminates himself by calling out the first letter of his name, "O, O, O!," when his fingertips are singed with candles—which of course works for "Oldcastle" but not "Falstaff." There is also the "castle" reference in IV,v,6. 18 January 1602 was the date the play was entered into the Register of the Stationers Company. The first quarto was
To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere becoming confused why they would sting him back, which Kensrue said "seemed a fitting metaphor for much of U.S. foreign policy." The song "Whistleblower" is about Edward Snowden, who famously leaked NSA documents proving that the government was spying on American citizens without warrant. The song "Death from Above" was written from the perspective of an unmanned combat aerial vehicle (or drone) pilot. Kensrue said about half the tracks on "To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere" follow this explicitly political theme, while the rest were described as being more broadly focused and touched on social or cultural concepts. The