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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... Death lay's his Icy hands on Kings . Scepters and Crowns must tumble down , and in the Duft be equal laid with the ... Death . The Garland withers on your brow , Then boast no more your mighty Decds Upon Death's Purple Altar now ...
... death of Elizabeth , Cromwell's second and favorite daughter , on 6 August 1658 not only came a few weeks before Cromwell's own death on 3 September but also probably hastened it . In any case , the people in the play appear to be ...
... Death as " the one surviving example of a late Commonwealth near - opera❞ and to observe that " to the musical historians of opera it is of immense value " ( 71-72 ) .5 The basic conceit of the work concerns a visit of Cupid and Death ...
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A Case of Cultural Poetics | 1 |
The Sun Declining | 16 |
Kinds of Closure | 37 |
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