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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... tragicomedy brings new plays to the fore here , it also calls for a salutary reprise . In the three most recent chapters we have seen the contrasting genres of tragedy ... tragicomedy . We have noted the pastoral tragicomedies Tragicomedies.
... Tragicomedy was for him a near - perfect dramatic vehicle . For most other playwrights as well , tragicomedy was the genre of choice . In fact , it is to be hoped that the present volume has conveyed a sense of the pervasiveness of ...
... tragicomedy than to tragedy or comedy . Of course we have glimpsed compelling tragic bleakness in such plays as Wase's Electra and the anonymous Marcus Tullius Cicero , but the tragicomedies implicitly and continuously insinuate that ...
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A Case of Cultural Poetics | 1 |
The Sun Declining | 16 |
Kinds of Closure | 37 |
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