Why was the Globe theatre closed in 1642?
In 1642 the parliament ordered the theaters to close. The cause of this was that the Puritans had been gaining power and at this point civil war broke out between the parliamentarians–who were Puritan–and the Royalists. The Puritans already had problems with the theater, and saw it as base and feared that the amusement offered there would spread immorality. Once the civil war broke out it was thought that no one should be spending their time with such frivolous things as plays and all of London’s theaters were closed. In 1644 it was destroyed for new building space.
