Context

The Early Modern World

View of Theatre

• It was a place primarily for entertainment, but also to discuss and debate important policitcal ideas. 
• Collaboration was a fundamental part of theatre. 
• It was also dangerous business, numerous play-wrights were jailed for anti-government plays.
• Puritans and religious extremists as disapproved, viewing them as places of vice and sin.
• They were specifically outlawed in 1640s and 1650s.
• Women and minorities were banned from the early modern stage.

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