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During Elizabethan times, the theater was a chief form of entertainment, affordable for most and one of the only arenas where the classes truly mixed. The Puritans, believing this was sinful entertainment and was a â??gateway entertainmentâ?? for other vices like gambling, launched an all out attack on the theater. They persecuted actors and based on politics and opportunity, eventually had them all closed down, greatly changing English social life.

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