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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... Jonson, and Davenant. The library of Walter Rea is said to have contained “a good sprinkling of poems, plays and Roman Catholic Literature” (Lawler 20). And whether he bought the books or borrowed them, John Cotgrave somehow managed to ...
... Jonson's famed praise of the sixty-eight-year-old Queen Elizabeth as the goddess Diana, “Queen and huntress, chaste and fair.” When James VI of Scotland came to the English throne in 1603, reinforcing his position with reminders that ...
... Jonson's famed Gypsies Metamorphos'd (1621) and designed as part of the festivities following a wedding at Chirk Castle. Likewise reflective of the widespread need to provide one's own entertainment were a couple of allegorically ...
... Jonson—who had lived until 1637 and would remain an important point of reference throughout the next two decades. Hence we find Nicholas Downey assuring his friend Samuel Harding, concerning Sicily and Naples, that BEN is deceas'd, and ...
... Jonson), the dramatists (including Jonson and, later, his literary descendants) naturally included soldiers and wars in their theatrical refractions of the world. Clearly some care about what a soldier said and did, onstage or off, was ...
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 |