Can Shakespeare Survive the New Puritans? - Andrew Doyle

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Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Identity politics has been a disaster for the theatre. Andrew's Substack: https://andrewdoyle.substack.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Mom, Dad, can we work around?
0:03.0	James, come rounds.
0:04.0	Can we have Tykawai?
0:05.0	Your maker.
0:06.0	We need speakers.
0:07.0	Pastors.
0:08.0	He's broken it.
0:09.0	She's crying.
0:10.0	Where's the football?
0:12.0	Can we watch cartoons?
0:13.9	Need a crowd pleaser?
0:15.0	Let's watch something with planets.
0:16.8	A musical.
0:18.0	cartoons.
0:18.7	The match.
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0:27.0	E. T. E. T. requires E. E. broadband. Content may vary terms apply. The Puritans had it in for Shakespeare. With the exception of the plague, they were perhaps
0:39.4	the most persistent threat to his livelihood. As far as these zealots were concerned, the theatre was a realm of a a Roarers, drunkards, prodigals, cheaters, idle, infamous,
0:54.0	base profane and godless persons.
0:56.6	Those were the words of the Polymerist William Prin
0:58.8	from his histromastics, 1633.
1:02.2	He was eventually to get his way in 1642 when the Puritan led Parliament shut the theatres down.
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