1642-1647

Updated: October 19, 2025

But there is no reason to suppose that it did not continue to exist till all playhouses were put down, during the civil war, 1642-1647. If The Curtain was preserved as long as that, its life was longer than that of any other playhouse of the Shakespearean period. Siberia, the northern home of the Tartars, was little known, even to the Russians, until the latter part of the sixteenth century.

- The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10