>Also maybe it would have been quite scandalous to have an actual
>Biblical person portrayed on the Globe stage. We should remember that
>by the standards of the time a theater ranked in respectability
>somewhere between a tavern and a whorehouse.
In fact, plays (including Shakespeare's) were often presented in taverns
and whorehouses.
I read one guy who claimed that Shakespeare was a Catholic (very
dangerous in those times) and his plays coded this religious belief. I
can't remember the details, but it suggests that Christianity is deeply
ingrained in the work. He drew his structures from both sacred and
profane sources - the Medieaval mystery plays and Seneca, in particular.
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