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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... Laud, impeached by Parliament in December 1640, was imprisoned. In March 1644 Laud would be tried, and in January 1645 his head, too, would be “taken off.” In the view of the poet John Cleveland, “The state in Strafford fell, the Church ...
... Laud and at the same time manage to excuse Charles himself. The courtier Abdal observes, Poore Princes, how are they mis-led, While they, whose sacred office 'tis to bring Kings to obey their God, and men their King, By these mysterious ...
... Laud); his pamphlets enjoyed a wide readership” (74). As Lamont observes, “the readiness of Parliament to commission Prynne is... solid recognition that his words did indeed take with the people'” (75). presence in the theater of whores ...
... Laud's chancellorship of the University there, since 1630, may have helped to make the move seem more reasonable. Moreover, Christ Church, a royal foundation, provided a natural base of operations.) Once the players joined the Oxford ...
... Laud. In A Description of the Passage of Thomas Late Earle of Strafford, over the River of Styx (1641), Strafford is presented confessing his own overreaching to the expectantly waiting William Noye, the former Attorney General, who had ...
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 |