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...the fact is, the acting profession was much despised, except for the diversion that it afforded its audience."Diversion" was not deemed to be as important as "real" work, like farming, blacksmithing, or merchantile endeavours.
They were viewed as frivolous, parasitic, untrustworthy, and of bad character.
The "personal attacks" that you claim were actually accurate and telling commentaries on your basic lack of historical knowledge, and upon your ugly little mean- spirited bigotry.
Middle-class and wealthy families regulary forbade their children to marry actors.
Actors, jugglers, acrobats, et al, were judged to be social and/or moral deviants, social inferiors, thieves, whores, layabouts. etc.. This attitude is imbedded in the literature and culture of the Western world, you mentally inpotent GIT.
People still say things like "What does So-And-So know? He/She's JUST an actor!".
Like "actor" is an epithet.
People STILL have disdain (though not as strongly as earlier generations) for performers.
I can't really offer you any ONE source for this information, any more than I could tell you how to breathe (though I do suspect that you do so through your slack, toothless, drooling jaws.).
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