Winter Fruit: English Drama, 1642-1660University Press of Kentucky, 1995 M11 9 - 472 pages Probably the most blighted period in the history of English drama was the time of the Civil Wars, Commonwealth, and Protectorate. With the theaters closed, the country at war, the throne in fatal decline, and the powers of Parliament and Cromwell growing greater, the received wisdom has been that drama in England largely withered and died.Not so, demonstrates Dale Randall in this magisterial study, the first book in nearly sixty years to attempt a comprehensive analysis of mid-seventeenth-century English drama. Throughout the official hiatus in playing, he shows, dramas continued to be composed, translated, transmuted, published, bought, read, and even covertly acted. Furthermore, the tendency of drama to become interestingly topical and political grew more pronounced. In illuminating one of the least understood periods in English literary history, Randall's study not only encompasses a large amount of dramatic and historical material but also takes into account much of the scholarship published in recent decades. Winter Fruit is a major interpretive work in literary and social history. |
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... Marcus Tullius Cicero . Harking back to Jonson's Catiline more than to any other play and reminding us that Catiline was the most frequently cited play of the period , Marcus Tullius Cicero is the most thoughtful and powerful tragedy ...
... Marcus Tullius Cicero was published we find Milton himself , impassioned author of the Areopagitica ( 1644 ) , serving as a licenser . Whatever elements we call to mind from the English world of 1650-51 , clearly some amalgam of them is ...
... Marcus Tullius Cicero comes closest to achieving Jonson's goals . Probably not surprisingly , then , Marcus Tullius Cicero is also the play that comes closest to approximating old - fashioned Senecan tragedy.16 Con- sidering the long ...
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A Case of Cultural Poetics | 1 |
The Sun Declining | 16 |
Kinds of Closure | 37 |
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