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In what year was theaters are shut down by the puritans and acting is banned?

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Dour Puritans celebrating the closing theatres in 1642. The closing was the banning of theatre at the start of the English Civil War. On September 6, 1642 by an act of Parliament, all theatres in England were closed.
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