The metaphors of Holofernes and the wounded Hart
In Shakespeare's early play "→Love's Labour's Lost [LLL]" (Act IV/2-1594/95?) ) "Holofernes" asks the curate Nathaniel, whether he will listen to "an extemporal Epitaph on the death of a deer, to humour the ignorant(...) called the deer, the princess killed, a pricket",
The metaphorical epitaph is about the hunt for a deer*1] by means of wordplays with double meanings of "pricket" and "sore", and verbal tricks of changing word meanings by adding single letters ... sore -> soreL.
After the deer was shot, a letter "L" was quickly added to the Sore, and out of the thicket sprang a Sorel, ... it exemplifies the principle how the princess [the Queen as Judith] and the author [beheaded Marlowe/Shakespeare as Holofernes] solved her serious problem [e.g. adding an "E" to Shak[e]speare ]
There can be little doubt that the Epitaph in LLL reveals a hidden autobiographical background of the author.
