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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... present book has told me that it manifests an inclination toward royalism , and another that it reveals my whiggism , perhaps I should take this opportunity to state that I hold no brief for either ( or any ) side engaged in England's ...
... presents a different view . The fact is that the 1642 procla- mation against stage - playing , whatever else it did , also acknowledged That it appears useful , even necessary , to do so is all the more remarkable when one realizes that ...
... present Government " ( Hamilton 529 ) . Two helpful studies on the earlier period are Clare's " Art made tongue - tied by authority " : Elizabethan and Jacobean Dramatic Censorship ( 1990 ) and Richard Dutton's Mastering the Revels ...
... present upon the stage the whole course of this present time , not sparing the king , state , or religion , in so great absurdity and with such liberty that any would be afraid to hear them " ( Richard Simpson 375 ) . Whether comic or ...
... present book was in press , the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv caused a furor by presenting a Shylock who first came onstage in a homburg and gray suit and finally appeared as a bearded and prayer - shawl - and - white - skullcap- wearing ...
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 |