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. |
From inside the book
... Lady ( 1657 ) who squanders so much of her time reading plays ( B4r ) . And of course some writers were worried about the weakness of the stronger sex . Henry Edmundson believed that " the feeding of mens mindes with ... Play - books ...
... Lady Sanspareile , endorse the old creed : " Kings and Royal Princes should do as Gods , which is to keep their Subjects in aw , with the Superstitious fear of Ceremonies " ( Youths Glory , pt . 2 , p . 155 ) . Speaking for the ...
... Lady Albion is said to be " troubled with a Liturgie . " In fact , the physician on duty is allowed simultaneously to clarify and to backtrack on the author's behalf by saying , " A Lethargie you meane " ( I3v ) . Aside from Brome's ...
... Lady Wild is courted by Constant and Sadd , Lady Love - all is a stallion - hunting widow , and the captain's punk , who is married off to the parson , is Wanton . All in all , The Parsons Wedding is a loose , lively , bawdy city play ...
... Lady Aston Cokayne acknowledges , " Troth Gentlemen , we know that now adayes / Some come to take up Wenches at our Playes " ( a2r ) . There was also the problem of personating or impersonation . Thomas Jordan in his Walks of Islington ...
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 |