In 1642 the Long Parliament ordered a closure of the London theatres.
John Milton published Aeropagitica (an essay defending freedom of the press) in 1644.
King Charles I was beheaded in 1649 during the English Civil War.
Behn became a popular playwright with her most popular play The Rover, part I in 1677. There's a sort of controversy about who was the first English woman to make her living as a professional writer. Lady Elizabeth Cary and Margaret Cavendish may have started their careers as playwrights earlier that century.
<span>Merlin lives backwards so he knows that the child that will be born (Arthur) will be future king, so he makes the bargain with Uther to have the child.</span>