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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... Stage growes great with horror . . . . -Ovatio Carolina ( 1641 ) -The Famous Tragedie of King Charles I ( 1649 ) The Sun shined that morning very clear without intermission , until the King came to the Fatal Block and lay down , and ...
... stage was set , so to speak , by the commissioners themselves , who ordered that " the Scaffold , upon which the King is to be executed , be covered with black " ( Catalogue of the Names 7 ) . Thus could an author write of " those pure ...
... Stage , but onely old Tapestry , and the Stage strew'd with Rushes , ( with their Habits accord- ingly ) whereas ours now for cost and ornament are arriv'd to the heighth of Magnificence ; but that which makes our Stage the better ...
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A Case of Cultural Poetics | 1 |
The Sun Declining | 16 |
Kinds of Closure | 37 |
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