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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... manuscript , and J. Samuel Hammond , who , beyond serving as Rare Book Librarian and University Carillonneur at Duke , has produced the index for the volume . I am grateful also to a trio of ( now former ) Duke students who at various ...
... Manuscript Library at Yale University . Among individuals who have helped signally with various matters from classics to computers , I am glad to name Peter Beal , Hilton Kelliher , Lynn Hulse , Walter Melion , Joanna Parker , Joseph A ...
... manuscripts , of course , survive but spottily . That most of the extant plays of the period are likely to remain available to us only in writing is , in any case , a reality that puts us on a footing roughly similar to that of those ...
... manuscript form . 14 Theatrical history must concern itself with the anguished closings , furtive openings , and reactive demolishings of the. 12The library of Worcester College , Oxford , has Charles's copies of , for instance , Marcus ...
... manuscript plays . The comedy called Grobiana's Nup- tialls , though difficult to date , is sometimes assigned to 1640 and associated with the names of Roger Shipman and William Taylor , both of St. John's College , Oxford . Based on a ...
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 |