Secret Royalists and but half-hearted Puritans abounded, and these did not scruple to abet a breach of the law, and to be entertained now and then in the old time-honoured way.
With the Restoration, however, Thespis enjoyed his own again, and sock and buskin became once more lawful articles of apparel.

Charles II.
mounted the throne arm-in-arm, as it were, with a player-king and queen.

The London theatres reopened under royal patronage, and in the provinces the stroller was abroad.

He had his enemies, no doubt.
Prejudice is long-lived, of robust constitution.

Puritanism had struck deep root in the land, and though the triumphant Cavaliers might hew its branches, strip off its foliage, and hack at its trunk, they could by no means extirpate it altogether.