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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... Thomas Killigrew ( 1612-83 ) 282 36. Title page of a pamphlet on Ranters 298 37. Major General John Lambert on a playing card 301 38. The " Rump " being roasted 304 39. William Cavendish ( 1592-1676 ) 315 40. Page from The Concealed ...
... Thomas Killigrew's The Parsons Wedding , both the work of men now thought of mainly as Restora- tion figures , though these particular plays were first performed in 1641-42 . When The Guardian was printed in 1650 , its prologue ...
... Killigrew's Parsons Wedding is cut from a similar bolt but in its earliest surviving form ( 1663 ) claims a wider ... Thomas Salusbury tried his hand at a comedy he called Love or Money . For readers now , the most valuable insight ...
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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 |