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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... performed, was a factor in the now-famous clipping of Prynne's ears. No harm will be done if we leave ourselves room to ponder the possibility of universal implications in all these varied plays, but we are nevertheless likely to ...
... performed Macbeth “with inordinate pauses at the relevant points, and a full minute of silence after 'Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?” It was a black mass” (Adler 1413). Andrzej Wajda's Dantom ...
... performed (Robert Knightley, translator of Alfrede (1659], says as much [1v]7), others would take on a good deal more life if we could see them presented by actors possessed of wit, skill, and charm. Since we are focusing here mainly on ...
... performed,” these works depended on written scripts, were presented to thousands of people, and partook in the direct shaping of ongoing current events. More particularly, the various components of Five Most Noble Speeches Spoken to His ...
... Performed at the Blackfriars in 1641, this play is a rather mechanical working out of the marital fortunes of the madrileño brothers Fernando and Francisco (there is a light seasoning of hispanisms), but a somewhat warmer center 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 |