There were many pamphlets published during the Restoration, such as Jeremy Collier's Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage and others like The Evil and Dangers of Stage-Plays that attacked the theatre. What was the basis for their attacks?
What will be an ideal response?
The writers of these and other anti-theatre books believed that the theatre encouraged idleness, perverted the youth, and promoted impiety. They documented thousands of "abominations" perpetrated by the theatre and saw the issues as at least partly due to the shortcomings in English education.
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