Viewing Event Record: The Theatre and Curtain are enemies to good manners: Twyne

Abstract

In Thomas Twyne's 'Physic against Fortune' (a topically inflected translation of Petrarch's 'De Remediis utriusque Fortunae') the character Reason observes that the Theatre and Curtain are 'well knowen to be enimies to good manners.'

Date Event Recorded

Date
From: 1579 (Source of claim: original)

Date Event Happened

Date
From: 1579 (Source of claim: original)

Venues

Name
Curtain
Name
Theatre

Event Type

  • anti-theatrical comment
  • audience context
  • cultural context
  • playhouse context