What did people think of puritisum during William Shakespeare time?

Puritanism as a religious and cultural movement began to make its most significant impact on English society towards the latter part of William Shakespeare's life and career, emerging more prominently in the early 17th century. Although Puritan views started gaining traction during Shake speare's times, his era, the latter half of the Elizabethan Age and his lifetime was not considered a period of heightened Puritan influence of control; it preceded the rise of Puritan supremacy later during Oliver Cromwell's rule in the Commonwealth period (starting about the mid-1640s).

At he time Shakepeare wrote his works , he lived the religious landscape in England was mostly influenced by the established Protestant Church of England ( Anglican Church), which emerged after Henry VIII broke apart from the Catholic Church during the English Reformation. While puritanical views existed and were gaining attention within certain sections of the populance and church during Shakespeare's era, they werer't prevalent or dominant force yet