Condemnation of Elizabethan Theater
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Description: An examination of attempts by the Puritans and the London Corporation to shut down the theaters, as well as the royal protection which allowed the theaters to thrive.
Condemnation of the Elizabethan Theater CONDEMNATION OF THE ELIZABETHAN THEATER E come again to a period when the influence of the Church was arrayed against the theater; and this time its efforts towards its suppression were markedly successful. It is perhaps unnecessary to recall to the reader that the London Corporation, during the greater part of the sixteenth century, had been in a chronic state of resentment on account of play-actors and playhouses. The reasons for their complaints were, for the most part, sound enough: opportunities for lawlessness and violence, congestion of traffic, encouragement of disreputable taverns, and danger of the spread of the plague. As time went on, other arguments, somewhat less reasonable, came to light. Some people contended that it was sacrilegious for men to dress up in clothes belonging to the other sex. (No women were as yet on the English stage. Women's parts were taken by boys.) One clergyman, not a Puritan but a Churchman, issued a pamphlet in which he stated that the stage was the cause of the visitations of the plague: when it was not present the ungodliness of the plays brought it on as a curse from heaven; and when it was present, the gathering in the playhouse caused it to spread.
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| Page title: | Condemnation of the Elizabethan Theater |
| Keywords: | elizabethan theater, church, london corporation, playhouses, plague, shakespeare, london, queen elizabeth, universities, actors, restoration |
| Description: | Examines attempts by the Church and the London Corporation to shut down the theaters, as well as the royal protection which allowed theatrical activities to thrive. |
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