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One event It was during the time of Shakespeare that Puritans were involved because they didn’t allow theaters since there were rise of crimes during that time and so many people gamble there, and not only that, even Shakespeare's plays were questioned because of its moral beliefs that the church had at that time.... Puritans wanted to have pure morals and they didn’t like how Shakespeare had some bad values in some of his plays that went against the puritans' belief....
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Theaters are banned from London City Limits
The objections to the theaters escalated and the Church, London Officials and respectable citizens raised even more objections to the theatres. Theaters were not only used to show plays. There was gambling and in some there was even bear baiting. Not only were there objections about the bawdy nature of some of the plays, the rise in crime but there was also the real risk of the crowded theatres encouraging the spread of the plague. The reputation of actors was remained disreputable, a legacy from the rogues and vagabonds who had previously roamed the country putting on plays and their classification as “vagabonds and sturdy beggars,” in a 1572 act of Parliament. In December 1574 the Common Council of London, under the influences of puritanical factions, issued a statement describing:
" great disorder rampant in the city by the inordinate haunting of great multitudes of people, especially youth, to plays, interludes, namely occasion of frays and quarrels, evil practices of incontinency in great inns having chambers and secret places adjoining to their open stages and galleries, inveigling and alluring of maids, especially of orphans and good citizens' children under age, to privy and unmeet contracts, the publishing of unchaste, uncomely, and unashamed fast speeches and doings . . . uttering of popular, busy, and seditious matters, and many other corruptions of
One event It was during the time of Shakespeare that Puritans were involved because they didn’t allow theaters since there were rise of crimes during that time and so many people gamble there, and not only that, even Shakespeare's plays were questioned because of its moral beliefs that the church had at that time.... Puritans wanted to have pure morals and they didn’t like how Shakespeare had some bad values in some of his plays that went against the puritans' belief....
here's an excerpt
Theaters are banned from London City Limits
The objections to the theaters escalated and the Church, London Officials and respectable citizens raised even more objections to the theatres. Theaters were not only used to show plays. There was gambling and in some there was even bear baiting. Not only were there objections about the bawdy nature of some of the plays, the rise in crime but there was also the real risk of the crowded theatres encouraging the spread of the plague. The reputation of actors was remained disreputable, a legacy from the rogues and vagabonds who had previously roamed the country putting on plays and their classification as “vagabonds and sturdy beggars,” in a 1572 act of Parliament. In December 1574 the Common Council of London, under the influences of puritanical factions, issued a statement describing:
" great disorder rampant in the city by the inordinate haunting of great multitudes of people, especially youth, to plays, interludes, namely occasion of frays and quarrels, evil practices of incontinency in great inns having chambers and secret places adjoining to their open stages and galleries, inveigling and alluring of maids, especially of orphans and good citizens' children under age, to privy and unmeet contracts, the publishing of unchaste, uncomely, and unashamed fast speeches and doings . . . uttering of popular, busy, and seditious matters, and many other corruptions of