That there was any rising of the public on behalf of the players does not appear.
Puritanism was too strong for opposition; and besides, the playgoer, by the nature of his favourite pursuit, almost avows himself a man of peace and obedient to the law.

The public had to submit, as best it could, to the tyranny of fanaticism.

But that bitter mortification was felt by very many may be taken for granted.
The authors were deprived of occupation so far as concerned the stage; they sought other employment for their pens; printing a play, however, now and then, by way of keeping their hands in as dramatists.

The managers, left with nothing to manage, perhaps turned to trade in quest of outlet for their energies--the manager has been always something of the trader.

But for the actors, forbidden to act, what were they to do?
They had been constituted Malignants or Royalists almost by Act of Parliament.