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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Brad Miner: Shakespeare could only portray priests, other papists, and Purgatory in pre-Reformation times or faraway Catholic locales.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 1, 2021 | Alexander Waugh, August 2021, Edward de Vere, Features, Magazine, News, vaccine, William Shakespeare | 0 |
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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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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Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 21, 2021 | English saints, General, Jesuits, Joseph Pearce, News, St Robert Southwell, William Shakespeare | 0 |
St. Robert Southwell, Jesuit priest and martyr, was hanged, drawn and quartered on February 21, 1595. To commemorate the anniversary and to celebrate the legacy of this great Catholic saint and poet, Joseph Pearce was […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 5, 2020 | Art & Culture, Featured, Homosexuality, News, Weekly Headlines, William Shakespeare | 0 |
There is something truly rotten in the state of Shakespeare criticism. Take, for instance, All is True, a recent film produced by Sony Pictures Classics, which shows Shakespeare as a homosexual. Such nonsense has its rotting roots in pride and prejudice, both of which need to be exposed so that we can clear Shakespeare’s name […]
by bcadmin | Apr 23, 2020 | Art & Culture, Coronavirus, Featured, News, Saint George, Weekly Headlines, William Shakespeare | 0 |
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 […]
by bcadmin | Apr 23, 2020 | Art & Culture, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines, William Shakespeare | 0 |
The fact that Shakespeare was a believing Catholic in very anti-Catholic times can be proven beyond any reasonable doubt. The evidence is convincing in terms of what is known about his life and from what can be seen in his plays and poems. Since this is so, it’s intriguing to consider Shakespeare’s response to the […]
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