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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... 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 masques, comparing the ...
English Drama, 1642-1660 Dale B.J. Randall. Figure 1. William Prynne (1600-1669), after Wenceslaus Hollar. (By ... figure 1). Differences among readers are inevitable. Integral to any question about signs, moreover, is the problem ...
... figure 2). *The single most potent fore-and-aft studies of the drama are those by Martin Butler (on the years 1632–42) and Robert Hume (on Restoration drama). Figure 2. A medal struck in 1633 depicting Charles I 2. The Sun Declining.
English Drama, 1642-1660 Dale B.J. Randall. Figure 2. A medal struck in 1633 depicting Charles I (obverse) and the sun over London (reverse). The ... Figure 3. Charles I (1600– 1649). (By permission of the. 'I H E S U N L E U L I IN 1 N G I /
... figure named Poetry protest about actors improvising “without premeditation” (thus acknowledging a source of trouble noted in Hamlet half a century earlier [III.ii.38-45]), Verity replies, “Yes, yes, you know Extempore's in fashion” (B1 ...
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 |