Winter Fruit: English Drama, 1642-1660Probably 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. 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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Best known of all is the ill-fated revival of Richard II by Shakespeare's company at the time of the 1601 Essex Rebellion. (On the other hand, we are likely to forget that Richard II was also put on—and silenced—in the later 1670s, ...
Strafford was beheaded on Tower Hill on 12 May 1641, and on 1 November news came of rebellion in Ireland.” Burnell's Landgartha, however, is not set in Ireland. Instead, Burnell turns back to Scandinavian lore for his subject (Saxo ...
Far less can be said for Thomas Rawlins's Rebellion (1640). Despite its arresting title, this work proves to be a free-ranging and inept gallimaufry by a young goldsmith who went on to the more practical job of being chief engraver to ...
It is obvious to the writer of the Treatise that the “matter acted in tragedies is murther, treason, rebellion, and such like; and in comedies is bauderie, cosenage, and meere knaverie” (11). The most conspicuous proponent of such views ...
... the five members of Parliament], which had been designed to reassert his authority, had simply alienated the Lords, and tipped the Commons' majority over the edge into what was very near a state of legal rebellion” (Fall 450).
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Contents
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6 The Famous Tragedy of Charles I | 95 |
7 AngloTyrannus | 117 |
8 Shows Motions and Drolls | 140 |
12 Fruits of Seasons Gone | 229 |
13 Tragedies | 248 |
14 Comedies | 275 |
15 The Cavendish Phenomenon | 313 |
16 Tragicomedies | 337 |
17 The Rising Sun | 368 |
Appendixes | 381 |
Works Cited | 391 |
9 Mungrell Masques and Their Kin | 157 |
10 The Persistence of Pastoral | 184 |
11 The Craft of Translation | 208 |
Index | 421 |
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| Title | Winter Fruit: English Drama, 1642-1660 |
| Author | Dale B.J. Randall |
| Publisher | University Press of Kentucky, 2014 |
| ISBN | 0813157706, 9780813157702 |
| Length | 472 pages |
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