While theatre as an art nowadays is normally perceived as "high tradition," it was intensely decried in the course of the bulk of the 1000s (impression only adjusted in the late 1800/early 1900s) as a resource of the Devil which would inspire violence, make individuals stupid, get them from their operate, direct to foreign playwrights invading various international locations and-horror of horrors-expose audiences to ladies, who, however usually.