Shakespeare's Attitude Towards the Catholic Church in "King John" ... |
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alleged anti-Catholic Arthur audience ban of excommunication Bishop Bowden bull Canon Cardinal Pandulph Cardinal's Catholic Church Cibber Colley Cibber Consequently considered Constance Corpus Juris Canonici critics crown Dauphin death doctrine of oaths Dover Wilson Dramatic Elizabeth Elizabethan England English Catholics evident excom excommunication excommunication and deposition F. J. Furnivall faith Faulconbridge favorable Felix Liebermann Folio Furness heauen heretics Holinshed Holy Ibid interpretation irreligion John's defiance John's submission King John Philadelphia Kynge Johan Langton Legate Lewis Line means Meyer moral motivation munication non-political Catholic Pandulph Pandulph's speech Papal Tyranny peace Philip of France plot political Pope Protestant Queen Raphaell Holinshed reference Reign religion religious Rome seems Shake Shakespeare London Shakespeare's attitude Shakespeare's John Shakespeare's King John Shakespeare's Religion shows speare's spiritual Stephen Langton supremacy swear temporal thou throne tion Troublesome Raigne Tyrannicide usurpation Variorum of King William Cardinal Allen William Shakespeare words York
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Page 56 - King's Majesty hath the chief power in this realm of England, and other his dominions, unto whom the chief government of all estates of this realm, whether they be ecclesiastical or civil, in all causes doth appertain, and is not, nor ought to be, subject to any foreign jurisdiction.
Page 82 - That person which by open denunciation of the Church is rightly cut off from the unity of the Church, and excommunicated, ought to be taken of the whole multitude of the faithful, as a Heathen and Publican, until he be openly reconciled by penance, and received into the Church by a judge that hath authority thereunto.
Page 97 - Since that guilty woman of England rules over two such noble kingdoms of Christendom and is the cause of so much injury to the Catholic faith and loss of so many million souls, there is no doubt that whosoever sends her out of the world with the pious intention of doing God service, not only does not sin but gains merit.
Page 55 - God himself; that is, that they should rule all estates and degrees committed to their charge by God, whether they be ecclesiastical or temporal, and restrain with the civil sword the stubborn and evil doers. The Bishop of Rome hath no jurisdiction in this realm of England.
Page 56 - God's Word, or of the Sacraments, the which thing the Injunctions also lately set forth by Elizabeth our Queen do most plainly testify ; but that only prerogative, which we see to have been given always to all godly Princes in holy Scriptures by God himself; that is, that they should rule all states and degrees committed to their charge by God, whether they be Ecclesiastical or Temporal, and restrain with the civil sword the stubborn and evil-doers.
Page 37 - I am not he shall buyld the Lord a house, Or roote these Locusts from the face of earth : But if my dying heart deceave me not, From out these loynes shall spring a Kingly braunch Whose armes shall reach unto the gates of Rome, And with his feete treade downe the Strumpets pride, That sits upon the chaire of Babylon.
Page 56 - Where we attribute to the queen's majesty the chief government, by which titles we understand the minds of some slanderous folks to be offended, we give not to our princes the ministering either of God's word, or of the sacraments, the which thing the Injunctions also lately set forth by Elizabeth our queen do most plainly testify; but that only prerogative, which we see to have been given always to all godly princes in Holy Scriptures by God himself...
Page 118 - It is great sin to swear unto a sin, But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.
Page 46 - Shakespeare, increased to such a height that Colley, who had smarted more than once for dabbling in tragedy, went to the playhouse, and, without saying a word to anybody, took the play from the prompter's desk and marched off with it in his pocket.
Page 93 - So that heerein the kingdome of Englande is farre more absolute than either the dukedome of Venice is, or the kingdome of the Lacedemonians was.