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Published · transcript-backedMarilynne Robinson: evaluation
20 Mar 2024 Conversations with Tyler Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Interpretation, Calvinist Thought, and Religion in America
“The denomination — inappropriate word — but the church, as it were, that somebody in Shakespeare’s period would be reacting against would’ve been the Anglican church, not the Catholic church, because the Catholic church had been effectively expelled from England for a long time, since Henry VIII.”
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- 20 Mar 2024
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…Do you think he believed in the Trinity, even? I wouldn’t go into detail like that. The question of being Catholic or Protestant in Shakespeare’s time was more a political question than a theological one, I think. The denomination — inappropriate word — but the church, as it were, that somebody in Shakespeare’s period would be reacting against would’ve been the Anglican church, not the Catholic church, because the Catholic church had been effectively expelled from England for a long time, since Henry VIII. On the scale between having the king as the head of the church — the Anglican model — and the Protestantisms that were flourishing, and that were publishing, and that were preaching, and all the rest of it — popular religion of the period — I think that’s where Shakespeare would be found. Do you think his late play The Winter’s Tale makes sense? It’s often called a problem play. Is there a problem in the structure of the plot, the setup, the resolution? Or do you feel you understand it? [laughs]…
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