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When you talk about theatre being outlawed in London, you could be talking about at least three different historical events. In 1642, theatrical productions were abolished throughout the whole of England, excepting only short skits called "drolls". This was because the government was overthrown and a republic set up by evangelical Christians. These evangelical Christians felt the same way about plays like Shakespeare's as modern evangelical Christians feel about Dungeons and Dragons and Harry Potter. They were evil tools of the Devil. This situation lasted for about twenty years until people got sick of the republic and brought back the monarchy.
In Shakespeare's day, the large public theatres like the Globe, the Rose, or the Swan, were built outside the borders of the city of London, in the suburbs, which had a different municipal government. The three I mentioned were built in Southwark, south of the Thames River, whereas others, like the Theatre, the Curtain and the Fortune were built north of the City. Either way, the City of London forbade these theatres from being built, largely because they resulted in huge crowds of people congregating (the Globe and the Fortune held thousands of people), which meant traffic problems, a magnet for pickpockets, cutpurses and other petty criminals, and the spread of disease. The City authorities did permit smaller indoor theatres like the Blackfriars which did not have this problem. At first they only licenced companies of boy actors to perform there, but later they allowed three regular companies to perform in the City itself.
However, the concern over the spread of disease was a real one. In the theatres people stood jammed together, and could easily get each others' fleas, fleas which might be carrying the plague. As a reasonable health precaution, the theatres in or near the City were closed if the area had an outbreak of plague. These were temporary closures, but if the plague outbreak lasted a very long time, it could be very hard on the theatre companies, who relied on the large city crowds to make their money. Touring and playing country venues was just not as profitable. In the extremely long plague closure of 1593, a number of theatrical companies went broke as a result.
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