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Actually this passage was Shakespeare's coded musing on whether he should himself be willing to face martyrdom as a Catholic during the English Reformation.
Not many people know that he was the Cousin of St Robert Southwell, but also knew St Edmund Campion. A few of the activists in the Gunpowder Plot were also family connections of his !
4 Part BBC Video series on Shakespeare by Michael Wood.
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Actually this passage was Shakespeare's coded musing on whether he should himself be willing to face martyrdom as a Catholic during the English Reformation.

Not many people know that he was the Cousin of St Robert Southwell, but also knew St Edmund Campion. A few of the activists in the Gunpowder Plot were also family connections of his !

4 Part BBC Video series on Shakespeare by Michael Wood.
guides.library.duq.edu/c.php?g=757245&p=5430995

Joseph Pearce's Lecture on English Recusant Catholics
youtube.com/watch?v=YaOO6FXFe58
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Bad actors, the whole sorry lot of them. Give me Christopher Plummer's recitation any day. Kudos if anyone catches the reference...