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Why do you think the belief sys-
tem at Shakespeare's time
changed with the Puritans?

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The anti-Catholic sentiment in England increased after the English victory over the Spanish Armada. This led to fears that a Catholic monarch would ascend the English throne, and Puritanism was an ultra-Protestant reaction against it.
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