Ep. 105: Not My King
Young Heretics
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The Protestant Reformation
Shakespeare is writing, under elizabeth and james, a post protestant reformation. And as he explores also in hamlet, which will get to there. When you have suggested that the pope is not the final authority capable of opening up a direct line to god, you have created an epistemological and political crisis. You have unseated the idea rit of how god communicates his will to earth so that we may know it. This makes me believe in dmin inspiration. The fact that this playwright, who was living through these events, saw in the implications of them, a effectively, the undermining of what had been monarchy up until point.
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