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
... Lord Treasurer , the Court of High Commission , the Lord Chamberlain , the Master of the Revels , and even the monarch.2 As such a state of affairs implies , the topical infringement of drama on life reaches back to the beginnings of ...
... Lord Strange ( later Earl of Derby ) , Sir Thomas Salusbury in 1641 wrote another Twelfth Night masque that took as its theme the merry death of Father Christmas , followed by the dance of the New Year and its twelve months . And for ...
... Lord Deputy . Whatever Wentworth's virtues by way of honesty , hard work , and self - discipline , he is said to have ruled there almost like a king , eventually becoming unpopular not only with the native Irish but also with the ...
... Lord Mayor ( 1644-45 ) , Thomas Atkins was an alderman at the time of the publication of this broadside ( 22 February 1648 ) . His alleged bowel problem is memorialized in Nedham's satiric The Reverend Alderman Atkins ( The Shit ...
... Lords for 2 September confirms the dangerous context of the moment . The " Order for Stage - plays to Cease " is immediately preceded by an " Order for 2000 1. for Lord Kerry to raise Men for Ireland , " and it is immediately followed ...
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 |