Merging certain themes from this month's Atlantic to get a better #hottake:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_William_Shakespeare#Catholic_sympathies …
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Jeet, can I send you some literature to speed your conversion?
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Alas, I would be at best a Santayana-style cultural Catholic: there is no God and Mary is His mother.
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You should watch the MST3K version.
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No expert, but Claudius's line: "My words fly up, My thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go" seems pretty Protestant to me, and the intent of the scene seems to be that Claudius isn't purified by the prayer (rather than the line being ironic.)
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Claudius is the bad guy so maybe there is an edge to him illustrating the Protestant position (while Hamlet, tellingly, does seem to think that Claudius' prayers purified him which is why he didn't kill Claudius at that moment).
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I like to imagine Shakespeare spending a few weekends at the Abbey of Thélème.
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