an increasing number of scholars look to evidence from shakespeare’s work, such as the placement of young hamlet as a student at wittenberg while old hamlet's ghost is in purgatory, as suggestive of a catholic worldview, but these speculations can be contradictory: the university of wittenberg was an intellectual centre of the protestant reformation and the whole of "hamlet" can be read as filled with "cryptic allusions to the protestant reformation". other indications have been detected in the sympathetic view of religious life expressed in the phrase "thrice blessed", scholastic theology in "the phoenix and the turtle", sympathetic allusions to english jesuit edmund campion in "twelfth night", and many other instances.