Viewing Event Record: The Curtain and Theatre and other purpose-built playhouses are schools for wickedness

Abstract

A passage in John Northbrooke's anti-theatrical treatise, cites the Theatre and Curtain as examples of London's purpose-built playhouses which are schools for wickedness and vice.

Date Event Recorded

Date
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Date Event Happened

Date
From: 1577 (Source of claim: externally supplied)

Venues

Name
Curtain
Name
Theatre
Name
Newington Butts
Name
Bear Garden

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Event Type

  • anti-theatrical comment
  • cultural context
  • playhouse context