ENGLISH PARLIAMENT ABOLISHED STAGE PLAYS 1642 SEPTEMBER 6 LED BY CROMWELL DEMOLISHED IN 1644 -CIVILWAR STARTED
ENGLISH PARLIAMENT ABOLISHED STAGE PLAYS 1642 SEPTEMBER 6 LED BY CROMWELL DEMOLISHED IN 1644 -CIVILWAR STARTED Globe Theatre and the Puritans The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, on land owned by Thomas Brend and inherited by his son, Nicholas Brend and grandson Sir Matthew Brend, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613.[4] A second Globe Theatre was built on the same site by June 1614 and closed by an Ordinance issued on 6 September 1642.[5] The Puritans The Puritans were a Protestant religious faction and the term came into general usage at the end of the reign of Bloody Mary and the start of the Elizabethan era. A broad definition of puritans is 'those who wanted to completely change the Church of England, with its Roman Catholic type of structure and traditions, for another reformed and plain church model'. This stri...