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 …
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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Perhaps, tho he gives Claudius rather than Hamlet the last line in that scene and dramatically it feels his view is the one that prevails. Of course, that’s the point Shakespeare was a humanist for whom worldviews were in exciting conflict, not a theologian expostulating a faith.
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Elizabeth’s personal existence owing to the break from Catholicism&her own relentless pursuit of a uniform state church,in combination with overweening desire to please, dazzle,entertain and delight that is WS’s guiding light makes me skeptical of him being anything but orthodox
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