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Maybe

The people who seek to read clues about his life in his works tend to believe he was a Catholic or had Catholic sympathies (tbough I can't cite chapter and verse). Likewise, Oxfordians use these surmises to bolster their case (Oxford being a known (re-)convert. There are undoubtedly papers about these textual clues, which, judging from your recusancy evidence (if true), would seem not to tip the authorship balance at all, but might explain religious references in the works.

Posted by JTJ on April 01, 1997 at 13:48:04
In Reply to "Was Shakespeare A "Secret Catholic"?" posted by David Nava on April 01, 1997 at 13:31:05

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• Recusancy Evidence David Nava 10:50:44 4/02/97 (1)
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