Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "الآراء الدينية لوليم شكسبير" in Arabic language version.
the mark of a Protestant bias rather than a papist one.
The practice of equivocation [drew] ridicule from all sides including even Shakespeare … [but] Continental theologians such as Martin Azpilcueta … justify the deception.
"This kind of equivocation was in the public mind when Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' was written in honor of the king who had escaped from the gunpowder.
At the very least such references suggest that the poet had a reputation as a Catholic, and that the charge was not wholly implausible.
"This kind of equivocation was in the public mind when Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' was written in honor of the king who had escaped from the gunpowder.
"This kind of equivocation was in the public mind when Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' was written in honor of the king who had escaped from the gunpowder.
At the very least such references suggest that the poet had a reputation as a Catholic, and that the charge was not wholly implausible.