While theatre as an art today is commonly perceived as "substantial society," it was greatly decried throughout the bulk of the 1000s (viewpoint only improved in the late 1800/early 1900s) as a device of the Devil which would encourage violence, make people silly, take them from their operate, direct to international playwrights invading various nations and-horror of horrors-expose audiences to girls, who, though frequently not allowed to be.