FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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to be used as hospitals
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to be burned to the ground
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to be closed
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to be very successful
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Detailed explanation-1: -On September 2, 1642, just after the First English Civil War had begun, the Long Parliament ordered the closure of all London theatres. The order cited the current “times of humiliation” and their incompatibility with “public stage-plays", representative of “lascivious Mirth and Levity".
Detailed explanation-2: -The Privy Council viewed the theaters as crowded wellsprings of disease, especially lethal in times of plague, and it moved to shut down operations in the interest of public health.
Detailed explanation-3: -The theatre was closed for a few years because of The Bubonic Plague (Black Death). 12. Queen Elizabeth I was the Queen of England when Shakespeare was born. 13.
Detailed explanation-4: -When plague hit London in 1592, theatres across the city closed down. They remained dark for virtually the entirety of this outbreak, lasting from the autumn of 1592 to May 1594. Even our predecessor, the original Elizabethan Rose Theatre, shut in 1593.