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In 1559, five years before Shakespeare's birth, the Elizabethan Religious Settlement finally severed the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church.In the ensuing years, extreme pressure was placed on England's Catholics to accept the practices of the Church of England, and recusancy laws made illegal any service not found in the Book of Common Prayer, including the Roman Catholic Mass. [5]
Shakespeare conformed to the official state religion, [k] but his private views on religion have been the subject of debate. Shakespeare's will uses a Protestant formula, and he was a confirmed member of the Church of England, where he was married, his children were baptised, and where he is buried.
In 2002, Martino Iuvara, a retired high school teacher resident in Ispica, put out a self-published booklet reaffirming the Crollalanza theory, [42] claiming that on Shakespeare's birthday Michel Agnolo Florio was born in Messina to a doctor Giovanni Florio and his wife, a Sicilian noblewoman, Guglielma Crollolanza.
At Garrick's spectacular 1769 Shakespeare Jubilee in Stratford-upon-Avon, he unveiled a statue of Shakespeare and read out a poem culminating with the words "'tis he, 'tis he, / The God of our idolatry". [39] In contrast to playscripts, which diverged more and more from their originals, the publication of texts developed in the opposite direction.
In addition, some have also considered Shakespeare's will as a direct evidence of protestant religious beliefs; [John Donnan Countermine (1906), "The Religious Belief of Shakespeare", p. 30 ] David Kastan has indicated that the phrase "through thonlie merittes of Jesus Christe" is an undeniable reference to the doctrine of solus Christus, which ...
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The source for the Roman history plays is Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Compared Together, in the translation made by Sir Thomas North in 1579. Shakespeare's historical plays focus on only a small part of the characters' lives, and also frequently omit significant events for dramatic purposes.
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