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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... William Cavendish (1592–1676) and Elizabeth Brackley Margaret Cavendish (1624–74) The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle and their family at storytelling time Title page of Ben Jonson's Worées (1616) The crown and the rising sun as medallic ...
... William R. Perkins Library, Duke University, followed closely by their compeers at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Their “pains / Are regist'red where every day I turn / The leaf to read them” (Macbeth I.iii. 150–52). My gratitude is ...
... William Prynne's Histrio-mastix (1633) and Walter Montagu's Shepheard's Paradise (1633), in which Queen Henrietta Maria performed, was a factor in the now-famous clipping of Prynne's ears. No harm will be done if we leave ourselves room ...
... William Tell (1804). Arthur Miller's The Crucible (1952) used a seventeenth-century façade to facilitate the exposition of twentieth-century, McCarthy-style witch-hunting. Tom Stoppard chose to reflect in Cahoot's Macbeth (1979) the ...
... William Cavendish put it, “Whensoever we see, we are always similizing” (English “Prince” 177). The resultant metaphors can be interesting, provocative, useful, memorable, beautiful, dangerous, and many things else. In the form 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 |