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The Tragedy Around “Hamlet”

Brad Miner: Shakespeare could only portray priests, other papists, and Purgatory in pre-Reformation times or faraway Catholic locales.

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Diary: A stroll around Glastonbury, vaccine concerns and a new admirer

Last week I joined a Glastonbury walking group under the thoughtful and intelligent guidance of warbling Guy Hayward, founder of the British Pilgrimage Trust. We began and ended in the spotless quietude of St Margaret’s Chapel by the Magdalene alms houses. Beautiful countryside, good company and fine vistas, but the trip has inspired me to

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O Rare Ben Jonson

James Matthew Wilson: In his time, Jonson had a reputation like Shakespeare’s. Dryden wrote that one could see his footprints “everywhere.”

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St. George, Shakespeare, and the Plague

Like many saints, George the dragon-slaying patron of England has murky origins, but he may go back to the Christian martyr soldier who refused to make a pagan sacrifice for the Emperor Diocletian’s bribe of wealth, and lost his head for it on April 23, 303. A millennium or so later, English Crusaders brought back […]

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