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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... Restoration period , especially at its outset , witnessed the survival and revival of earlier plays . Robert Hume observes that it was not until the season of 1663-64 that a substantial offering of new plays occurred ( Development 20 ) ...
English Drama, 1642-1660 Dale B.J. Randall. " State Affairs on the Restoration Stage , 1660-1675 . " Restoration and Eighteenth - Century Theatre Research 14 ( 1978 ) : 1-9 . Lovelace , Richard . In Cavalier Poets : Selected Poems . Ed ...
... Restoration Drama on the Stage and in the Criticism of the Restoration . Uppsala : Almqvist & Wiksells , 1966 . Speaight , George . The History of the English Puppet Theatre . 1955. Carbondale : Southern Illinois UP , 1990 . The Speech ...
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A Case of Cultural Poetics | 1 |
The Sun Declining | 16 |
Kinds of Closure | 37 |
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