Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2019
The century in which Shakespeare was born and started his career as a playwright saw two major instances of mass violence linked to religious issues: the Sack of Rome in 1527, and the 1572 Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre in Paris. These events were mirror images of each other in more than just their dates: in the former case, it was the See of Catholicism that was attacked by the Emperor’s troops, which included a Lutheran contingent; in the latter, it was the French Protestants, or Huguenots, who were attacked by the Catholic population.
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