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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... royalists tended to be more tolerant of, interested in, and productive of drama. Their opponents were capable of producing the potent Tyramical/Government Amatomized and Marcus Tullius Cicero, but the fact is that the royalists were ...
... the authorities were particularly nervous in 1655 because of the royalist uprising headed by Colonel John Penruddock in March of that year. - Whether or not Milton's learned and impassioned essay had an 42 W I N T E R F R U I T.
... royalists. According to James Wright's recollection in his Historia Histrionica (1699), “Most of 'em, except Lowin, Tayler, and Pollard, (who were superannuated) went into the King's Army, and like good Men and true, Serv'd their Old ...
... royalist sympathizers into considering an alternative stand than to reinforce the already-sympathetic views of the opposition. In 1641, the year of Strafford's beheading, when Laud was already a prisoner in the Tower, a dialogue called ...
... royalist fleet. In July 1649 young Charles was on the opposite coast, sailing for Scotland. '5These names may refer to Sir Ferdinand Gorge and Colonel Herbert Morley, but probably the names of various men whom either lady had met would ...
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 |