“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?
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.
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.