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Year 10 Coursework How important was the Theatre in Elizabethan Times? 1. One reason the theatre was seen to be a danger was because it was a place where lots of dangerous people could come together. In Source D it says "they are ordinary places for vagrant person, master less men...and other dangerous persons to meet in one place." This was a threat because those people were all together in one place and could plot crimes and steal from people in the crowds as there were lots of people there and no one would notice anything. The city was not able to stop these crimes as the theatre was "out of the city's jurisdiction" which meant that those crimes were unpunished. Those people also stayed unemployed as they spent their time going to the theatre and others were distracted from their jobs: in source D it says "draw apprentices and other servant...

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