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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English Drama, 1642-1660 Dale B.J. Randall. To Phyllis It was in the dead of a long Winter night. Dedication.
... dedication of the Beaumont and Fletcher folio . Before 1642 was out , some of the King's Men left for Oxford , where the King had set up his new headquarters . In effect , Oxford would be his capital for the next three and a half years ...
... dedication of his father's Biathanatos ( 1648 ) that after the beginning of the fighting his study and all his books were frequently examined . And yet old playbooks con- tinued to be sold , as we have seen , and new ones to be printed ...
... dedication to the King , " I aimd at ye character of a good Sovereign " ( 174v ) . 12 The problem is that the Queen's subjects , being more typical Amazons , are rebelling against her because she is insufficiently tough in handling her ...
... dedication to the teenaged Sir William Portman , Baronet , Chamberlaine notes that his work has long lain dormant , " being then in the embryo , when with us , War first made the present Age unhappy " ( A2v ) . Though details of the ...
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 |