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To: annalex

“Get Thee to a nunn`ry”

There were no Church of England nunneries- Henry VIII seized them all and sold off their properties. In 1500`s, thousands of Catholic English women fled and went to live in Catholic nunneries in Belgium, France etc.

“Get Thee to a Catholic nunn`ry”

There fixed it.

When has anyone ever heard that a Protestant advocates a woman to go into a Catholic nunnery?


16 posted on 11/27/2014 9:25:52 PM PST by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
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To: bunkerhill7

Nunnery was Elizabethan slang for a brothel. He was not telling Ophelia to go and take up in a religious order.Doesn’t mean he was or was not a crypto-Catholic. Just that it’s not exactly evidence he was.


17 posted on 11/27/2014 9:42:16 PM PST by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: bunkerhill7

Since 11 c. monasteries existed in Scandinavia, but yes, that is another instance when a distinctly Catholic aspect of life is introduced on stage as a natural resolution for Ophelia.


25 posted on 11/28/2014 7:57:27 AM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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