one perspective is that to deduce from the evidence a definite anglican shakespeare is to misapprehend the religious circumstances of the time, the word "anglican" not existing until nearly two decades after the writer's death and contemporary historians not recognising anglicanism as a firm organisation or religious identity during his lifetime. in a similar vein, maurice hunt, jean-christophe mayer and others have written of a shakespeare with a syncretic or hybrid faith, in some sense both catholic and protestant. anthony nuttall argues shakespeare's work defies identification of precise religious influences because shakespeare's ranging and restless mind played with many ideas, alternately promoting and challenging assumptions throughout the plays; in "measure for measure", nuttall finds evidence of experimentation with heretical gnostic theology. however, eamon duffy points out that although the majority of tudor people were muddled and uncertain, accepting of compromise and accommodation, "religious diversity was not a notion to conjure with in tudor england… ritual and doctrinal diversity were evils, aspects of social and religious disunity."