Winter Fruit: English Drama, 1642-1660University Press of Kentucky, 2014 M10 17 - 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. 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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... (1658) B. Richard Flecknoe's A Short Discourse of the English Stage (1664) 16 37 51 66 95 117 140 157 184 208 229 248 275 313 337 368 381 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. . Page from. Works Cited Index 387 391 421 Contents.
... Richard Atkyns, The Vindication (1643) What I have now to say is but to the ingenious Reader, that Hee will value these, noe other then as the writer gives them Leaves, and perhaps Budds of a tree, which (if this long winter of generall ...
... Richard Dutton's Mastering the Revels: The Regulation and Censorship of English Renaissance Drama (1991). One might note, furthermore, that censorship of the English stage was not abolished altogether until the Theatres Act of 1968 ...
... Richard Edwards took attention-rousing pains to specify that when “Wee talke of Dionisias Courte, wee meane no Court but that” (Aii, r). It was clear to Thomas Bowes, the translator of a 1594 edition of La Primaudaye's Academie ...
... Richard Overton, “The figure is but the shell; will you not crack the shell to take out the kernell?” (Baiting A1 v). In fact, one of our mid-seventeenth-century playwrights, Samuel Sheppard, turns to this very image in writing of ...
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 |