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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... Charles's Laudian policies began to build toward the Second Bishops ' War in Scotland , and when Charles realized that the gentry would not provide so - called Ship Money to aid him and that he could not secure credit elsewhere to raise ...
... Charles as a helpmeet , de- scending from a huge cloud and accompanied by martial ladies , was " the The ... Charles's unsuccessful encounters with the Scots in the Bishops ' Wars . chiefe Heroin " of the piece ( D2r ) ,. THE ...
... Charles and Henrietta Maria as Phoebus and Phebe , the sun and moon , light and life of the world . 12 Ignoring ... Charles's solar power , and thanks , too , to Hen- rietta Maria - to whom the work is dedicated- " a Perpetuall and ...
... Charles's autocratic handling of the bibliophile Charles Cotton ( see Gair , " Poli- tics " ) ; 15 Robert Wild's The Benefice ( 1641 ) , concerned with the scrambling of various people for a church living and designed to be played in a ...
... Charles's current and very real troubles in Ireland . In 1632 Charles had sent his friend Thomas Wentworth to Ireland as Lord Deputy . Whatever Wentworth's virtues by way of honesty , hard work , and self - discipline , he is said to ...
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 |