{"id":3274,"date":"2005-08-28T00:39:55","date_gmt":"2005-08-28T00:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/08\/and-continuing-with-our-recusant-theme.html"},"modified":"2005-08-28T00:39:55","modified_gmt":"2005-08-28T00:39:55","slug":"and-continuing-with-our-recusant-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/08\/and-continuing-with-our-recusant-theme.html","title":{"rendered":"And continuing with our Recusant Theme…"},"content":{"rendered":"

New book (about which I’ve been hearing for a while, I think) claims Shakespeare’s plays contained elaborate coded, political language:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Far from being an ambitious entertainer who played down his Catholic roots under a repressive Elizabethan regime, Shakespeare took deliberate risks each time he took up his quill, according to Clare Asquith’s new book Shadowplay. She argues that the plays and poems are a network of crossword puzzle-like clues to his strong Catholic beliefs and his fears for England’s future. Aside from being the first to spot this daring Shakespearean code, Asquith also claims to be the first to have cracked it. <\/p>\n

‘It has not been picked up on before because people have not had the complete context,’ she explained this weekend. ‘I am braced for flak, but we now know we have had the history from that period wrong for a long time because we have seen it through the eyes of the Protestant, Whig ascendancy who, after all, have written the history.’<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New book (about which I’ve been hearing for a while, I think) claims Shakespeare’s plays contained elaborate coded, political language: Far from being an ambitious entertainer who played down his Catholic roots under a repressive Elizabethan regime, Shakespeare took deliberate risks each time he took up his quill, according to Clare Asquith’s new book Shadowplay.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nAnd continuing with our Recusant Theme... - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/08\/and-continuing-with-our-recusant-theme.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"And continuing with our Recusant Theme... - 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