<span>The correct answer is King Henry VIII. King Henry VIII broke with the Catholic Church because he wanted to divorce his first wife when she did not give him a son. He had fallen in love with another woman and wanted to marry her. The Pope would not grant him a divorce from his first wife, however. Henry then started his own church, the Church of England, and gave himself a divorce.</span>
England's departure from the Catholic Church started during King Henry VIII's rule around 1534, this created the Anglican Church whose traditions are based on the English Book of Common Prayer; that split rose tensions between Protestants and Catholics, the 2 main religions in Elizabethan England, with Elizabeth being Henry VIII's daughter.
And in 1559 the Elizabethan Religious Settlement ultimately separated from the Roman Catholics, 5 years before Shakespeare was born.
Shakespeare's life developed through the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I afterward.
The meaning of Gwendolen's words is that she is against the traditional idea that women are the ones who should stay at home to be in charge of the domestic duties. She shows that women might have a position of power and that men can stay at home.
The literary technique used is Paradox because Gwendolen proposes a reversal of the traditional and well-known ideas.
