Father David Beauregard has more evidence in his new book than
you could shake a speare at. Father Beauregard claims that the
theological content of the bard's plays is overwhelmingly
Catholic. Take the following examples from Father Beauregard's
Catholic Theology in Shakespeare's Plays (University of Delaware
Press): - Anglican clergyman, the 17th-century cleric Richard
Davies, wrote that the great playwright "died a Papist." -
"Catholic Theology in Shakespeare's Plays" (University of
Delaware Press), that Shakespeare was Catholic. - The ghost of
Hamlet's murdered father tells his son that he is in purgatory,
a Catholic concept. - Isabella, a novice nun in "Measure for
Measure," is a model of virtue, a break with Protestant
dramatists who depicted Catholic religious as sinners, said
Beauregard. (It's telling, he adds, that Shakespeare made
Isabella a novice; an earlier play on which "Measure for
Measure" was partly based portrayed Isabella as a secular
woman.) - In "All's Well That Ends Well," Helena cures t