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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... civil strife often referred to at the time as a " winter . " I For me , the title Winter Fruit has personal as well as historical and literary applications . I set to work on this project in the late 1960s , in fact in the year when a ...
... Civil Wars , Commonwealth , and Protectorate - a period when some think the form ceased to exist . One might therefore be tempted to retreat to the broad suggestiveness of Shakespeare's collocation of “ revels , dances , masks , and ...
... civil wars ( The Speech of a Cavaleere to His Comrades ) . In sobering contrast , we find the 1648 “ Ordi- nance for Putting All Delinquents , Papists , Ministers , Officers , and Soldiers of Fortune , That Have Adhered to the Enemy ...
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A Case of Cultural Poetics | 1 |
The Sun Declining | 16 |
Kinds of Closure | 37 |
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