According to new historicism, there is a connection between the tendency of rising and falling empires to Catholic and Protestant belief in the second coming of Christ. Furthermore, New Historicism asserted that Shakespeare had some degree of association with Catholic resistance, leading to the conclusion that references to Catholicism in Hamlet are important. Nancy Armstrong quotes a famous neo-historicist, Michel Foucault, in “Some Call It Fiction: On Politics Of Domesticity,” who states that the “repressive hypothesis” is the assumption that culture “suppresses” or “imposes itself.” (Armstrong 570). As evidence, Stephen Greenblatt raises the point that, by the early 1600s in England, the Church of England had rejected the Roman Catholic concept of Purgatory and this was practiced as false and unnecessary (Greenblatt 235). So the show itself was controversial, attracting the attention of Protestants and Catholics across Britain