Thursday, August 24, 2006
recusant
recusant - n - Refusing to submit, comply, etc.; obstinate in refusal; refusing to attend services in the Church of England.
Virtually nothing is known of Shakespeare's early life. There's a baptismal record, bans posted for his marriage to Anne Hathaway, birth records for three children (Susanna and the twins Hamnet and Judith), and little but rumor until his name pops up in London in 1592 (There's substantial evidence that he'd already been there for a few years though). Today's word comes up because there is a generally discredited notion that he may have been a recusant Catholic.
Virtually nothing is known of Shakespeare's early life. There's a baptismal record, bans posted for his marriage to Anne Hathaway, birth records for three children (Susanna and the twins Hamnet and Judith), and little but rumor until his name pops up in London in 1592 (There's substantial evidence that he'd already been there for a few years though). Today's word comes up because there is a generally discredited notion that he may have been a recusant Catholic.
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