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100% it’s over thinking it. The double meaning is an instructive example. You can’t know about the double meaning a priori. It’s foreshadowing.

It’s a play from a time when there was no television. No radio. No internet. People would have seen it multiple times and not expected to understand everything during their first watch. Shakespeare straight up invents words.



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