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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... satire on the Reverend Zachary Crofton called The Presbyterian Lash ; or , Noctroff's Maid Whipt ( 1661 ) —a work , incidentally , said to have been " acted " at the Pye Tavern at Algate . Lamberts Last Game Plaid ( 1660 ) , which ...
... satire in drama . A second Aristophanic comedy , Plutus , was published in 1659 by " H.H.B. , " perhaps Henry Burnell.12 Long a favorite among Renaissance readers , surely because of the applicability of its satire to so many different ...
... satire , the midcentury tragicomedy is perhaps easier to recognize than it is to define.2 Though discussion is more the goal here than definition , a bit of both may be achieved by noting the title page that Fletcher's friend Jonson ...
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The Sun Declining | 16 |
Kinds of Closure | 37 |
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