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St Peter’s Faith and the Arts

There are More Things in heaven and earth: A renaissance prince or a reformation play? Shakespeare’s hamlet.
Presented by Rev’d Dr Gregory Seach | Tuesday 22nd September | 6pm

In an essay titled ‘Sweet Religion’ in Post -Reformation Shakespearean England, published in 2025, one critic of Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) writes: ‘Hamlet, I would argue, is in fact explicitly concerned with the transition from Catholicism to Protestantism’. This presentation will explore evidence within the play to consider this claim. From the early appearance of a ghost, clearly escaped from Purgatory (robustly discredited in England by the time of the play’s first performances), to his son, a prince who returns to Denmark from his studies in Wittenberg University, we will consider the profound questions Hamlet presents and raises regarding the abrupt change in religion England had experienced in the 70 years or so before the play was written and first performed. Not only will we discover that ‘the time is out of joint’, but above all that ‘the play’s the thing’ which expresses these questions in ways that are still confronting and disturbing.

Tickets available here.

Young Adults’ Mass + Pub

Monthly Mass followed by a social hour at a local pub, for those aged 18-40.

Held on the first Monday of the month | St Peter’s Church |6.00pm.

All welcome. Please contact Mthr Cara at ap@stpeters.org.au for any further details.