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johndavid
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March 11, 2006 8:13 PM
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"But in the case of Shakspere the argument is long and complicated, ..., though sufficiently simple and direct for people with a sense of reality. I believe that recent discoveries, as recorded in a book by a French lady, have very strongly confirmed the theory that Shakspere died a Catholic. But I need no books and no discoveries to prove to me that he had lived a Catholic, or more probably, like the rest of us, tried unsuccessfully to live a Catholic; that he thought like a Catholic and felt like a Catholic and saw every question as a Catholic sees it. The proofs of this would be matter for a seperate essay; if indeed so practical an impression can be proved at all.It is quite self-evident to me that he was a certain real and recognizable Renaissance type of Catholic; like Cervantes; like Ronsard. But if I were asked offhand for a short explanation, I could only say that I know he was a Catholic from the passages which are now used to prove he was an agnostic." - GK Chesterton, The Thing, Why I am a Catholic, 1929
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