Winter Fruit: English Drama, 1642-1660

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University Press of Kentucky
" WITH A FOREWORD BY BARBARA KINGSOLVER A compelling worldview with advocates from around the globe, agrarianism challenges the shortcomings of our industrial and technological economy. Not simply focused on farming, the agrarian outlook encourages us to develop practices and policies that promote the health of land, community, and culture. Agrarianism reminds us that no matter how urban we become, our survival will always be inextricably linked to the precious resources of soil, water, and air. Combining fresh insights from the disciplines of education, law, history, urban and regional planning, economics, philosophy, religion, ecology, politics, and agriculture, these original essays develop a sophisticated critique of our cultureÕs current relationship to the land, while offering practical alternatives. Leading agrarians, including Wendell Berry, Vandana Shiva, Wes Jackson, Gene Logsdon, Brian Donahue, Eric Freyfogle, and David Orr, explain how our goals should be redirected toward genuinely sustainable communities. These writers call us to an honest accounting and correction of our often destructive ways. They suggest how our society can take practical steps toward integrating soils, watersheds, forests, wildlife, urban areas, and human populations into one great systemÑa responsible flourishing of our world and culture.
 

Contents

A CASE OF CULTURAL POETICS
1
THE SUN DECLINING
16
KINDS OF CLOSURE
37
THE PAPER WAR
51
ARMS AND THE MEN
66
THE FAMOUS TRAGEDY OF CHARLES I
95
ANGLOTYRANNUS
117
SHOWS MOTIONS AND DROLLS
140
FRUITS OF SEASONS GONE
229
TRAGEDIES
248
COMEDIES
275
THE CAVENDISH PHENOMENON
313
TRAGICOMEDIES
337
THE RISING SUN
368
The Preface to Leonard Willans Orgula 1658
381
Richard Flecknoes A Short Discourse of the English Stage to His Excellency the Lord Marquess of Newcastle 1664
387

MUNGRELL MASQUES AND THEIR KIN
157
THE PERSISTENCE OF PASTORAL
184
THE CRAFT OF TRANSLATION
208
WORKS CITED
391
INDEX
421
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