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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... Cromwell found them useful back in Henrician days, these mid-seventeenth-century pamphlets, especially those castin dialogue and treating contemporary people and current events, continued to be visible incarnations of dissonance ...
... Cromwell (both now possessed with devils), the wives of each, together with their attendants (Ruth Incontinence and Abigail Concupiscence) and their paramours (Lady Fairfax's Gorge and Mrs. Cromwell's Morley'5), to say nothing of three ...
... Cromwell) anticipates restoration of the Stuarts, this time specifically invoking the Prince of Wales: “Come Royal ... Cromwell's New Model Army, defeated Charles at Naseby, and agreed to the King's trial—though he then declined to ...
... Cromwell (February 1648), for instance, begins thus: An Ordinance from our pretended State, Sowes up the Players mouths, they must not prate Like Parrats what they're taught upon the Stage, Yet we may Print the Errors of the Age ...
... Cromwell began to appear about 1647 (Johnson 21) and afterward became common in royalist writings.” Notwithstanding such relatively late touches, however, The Amorous Warre ends as it probably did when first conceived— with a ...
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 |