Shakespeare was a 'secret Catholic' new exhibition shows

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Shakespeare was a ‘secret Catholic’ new exhibition shows
The Venerable English College has claimed that England’s leading playwright was a secret Catholic who spent “lost years” in Rome.
Father Andrew Headon, the vice-rector of the college, said that college records correspond with a previously undocumented period in Shakespeare’s life after he left Stratford in 1585 and before he emerged as a playwright in London in 1592. “There are several years which are unaccounted for in Shakespeare’s life,” said Father Headon
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A leather parchment kept by the college is signed by “Arthurus Stratfordus Wigomniensis” in 1585, “Shfordus Cestriensis” in 1587 and “Gulielmus Clerkue Stratfordiensis” in 1589.
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The college believes these signatures are: “(King) Arthur’s (compatriot) from Stratford (in the diocese) of Worcester,” “Sh(akespeare from Strat)ford (in the diocese) of Chester” and “William the Clerk from Stratford”.
Shakespeare’s family was Catholic and he had many friends who where loyal to Rome
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Wow, it’s a wonder the press let that out. It probably will never be circulated much in academia, I’m sure. 😉
 
The news is shocking and revolutionary for the world of Shakespeare scholarship and admiration-societies of various kinds. I have never seen a news item in the mainstream press like this before – which is so definitive. Yes, some Catholic authors (Joseph Pearce, Fr. Milward, Claire Asquith have brought out the facts about Shakespeare’s Catholicism but this is far from commonly known in the general public. As Ms. Asquith shows, Shakespeare’s Catholicism is an essential key in even understanding the basic symbolism in several of his plays. This has never been acknowledged by the literary academia before. Shakespeared should be listed as a Catholic author.
 
It certainly would be compelling, if true. I’m a skeptic, though. It sounds a lot like da Vinci Code-style revisionist history. 🤷
 
Tim_Kirchoff said:
It certainly would be compelling, if true. I’m a skeptic, though. It sounds a lot like da Vinci Code-style revisionist history. 🤷
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:confused: da Vinci Code isn’t “revisionist history” - it’s fiction. In this case, the conclusions may not be definitive, but they aren’t a fabricated story.
 
Tim_Kirchoff said:
It certainly would be compelling, if true. I’m a skeptic, though. It sounds a lot like da Vinci Code-style revisionist history. 🤷
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The evidence is strong enough to convince those who are sympathetic (Catholics like myself) but probably not strong enough to have the kind of world-changing effect that it really should. I thought Claire Asquith’s book (Shadowplay) was going to revolutionize Shakespeare scholarship when it came out a couple of years ago, but it was quietly ignored. Academia and the various powers that be also have too much at stake to have their world rocked like this.
 
Here goes more Shakespeare speculation. OK. When was he born? Where was he baptized? Who was his confessor? What church records show that he was Catholic? What members of his family were Catholic? Was he married in the Church? If so, when, where, who was the priest? Etc. Etc. Then, there is all the former discussion about why Shakespeare didn’t write those plays at all. Let’s see, hmmmm, 1564 to 1616. Interesting times for Catholics in England. Oh boy! Next we’ll have the translators of the King James Bible be Catholic. And didn’t you know, James I was really a Catholic in spite of all the protestant hype? He got it from his mother,you know.
 
OriginalJS said:
Here goes more Shakespeare speculation. OK. When was he born? Where was he baptized? Who was his confessor? What church records show that he was Catholic? What members of his family were Catholic? Was he married in the Church? If so, when, where, who was the priest? Etc. Etc. Then, there is all the former discussion about why Shakespeare didn’t write those plays at all. Let’s see, hmmmm, 1564 to 1616. Interesting times for Catholics in England. Oh boy! Next we’ll have the translators of the King James Bible be Catholic. And didn’t you know, James I was really a Catholic in spite of all the protestant hype? He got it from his mother,you know.
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Jealous much?
Anyway. I should have known he was Catholic. Non Catholic Christians aren’t very good at writing books. They are just good at taking verses etc out.😃
 
He is possibly catholic as many were in England, Thomas Moore and John Fisher, both saints, weren´t the unique.
I always think what the world we will have if Mary Stuart and Philip II of Spain have had a child, a king of England and Spain would be a different world.
It was a beautiful dream.
 
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