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, at least for a while in the 1630s, was able to enjoy what was to be ... king in Christendom.” During this period he enlisted William Laud ... Charles and Archbishop Laud undertook to revivify Anglicanism by shifting the emphasis ...
... King who was being exalted in his masques at court could be—and sometimes was—perceived as a threat to his own realm. He was, indeed, a “Hieroglyphic King” (Vaughan 370). When conflict over Charles's Laudian policies began to build ...
... King seeks civil concord by any means, and he plans to “outlast / Those ... Charles and Henrietta Maria as Phoebus and Phebe, the sun and moon, light ... king to enter “in his glorious Chariot” (B2v). Thanks to Charles's solar power, and ...
... King's governance. Now, embedded in the celebratory written record of men's ... Charles was moved to make a statement that, whatever its impact at ... Charles a little over seven years later to what was to become the most famous stage of ...
... Charles's current and very real troubles in Ireland. In 1632 Charles had ... king, eventually becoming unpopular not only with the native Irish but also ... Charles's behalf, convicted by a bill of attainder (a parliamentary bill that ...
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 |