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
... Cavalier Drama ( 1936 ) .5 Confronted with a mountain of complex and conflicting data , Professor Harbage accom- plished a great deal . Unfortunately both for him and for us , however , he apparently lost or never had much sympathy for ...
... Holy Honey - suckles " ( 27-28 ) . " This information is taken from a typescript by William P. Williams ( cited in Kelliher , " Cavalier Dramatist " 167 ) . The future Charles II , of course , would have A CASE OF CULTURAL POETICS 13.
... cavalier are of limited use unless we keep in mind that , as Edward Hyde , Earl of Clarendon , observed later , " the court was full of faction and animosity " ( 1 : 187 ) .5 John Suckling included in his play Brenno- ralt ( 1639–41 ...
... Cavalier ' plaything but as an important focus and voice for anxieties and dissent existing in tension within the court . The writers perceive the injustice , instability and unpopularity of Charles's regime with considerable clarity ...
... cavalier drama . In thinking about this body of plays just preceding the order to close the theaters , moreover , we should bear in mind that while we know what lay immediately ahead , the dramatists , players , and booksellers ...
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 |