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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... London— the latter two of whom were knighted in the process. Charles was welcomed home as “the mortall Sunne,” but less predictably there was clearly a concern about “how dangerous times are, brother is timerous and fearefull to trust ...
... London, for their hearty expressions of their love this day to me. And indeed I cannot expresse the contentment I have received therein: for now I see, that all these former Tumults and disorders, have only risen from the meaner sort of ...
... London stage in our own time. The Royal Shakespeare Company played it to full houses at The Swan in Strafford in 1992 and The Pit (Barbican Centre) in 1993. Valuable for conveying the serious undertones in the text, this production also ...
... London (1637–38) and Lord Mayor (1644–45), Thomas Atkins was an alderman at the time of the publication of this broadside (22 February 1648). His alleged bowel problem is memorialized in Nedham's satiric The Reverend Alderman Atkins ...
... London (although it would be naive for us to assume that all who signed the document had read it), the petition proposed abolishing episcopal government, including “all its dependencies, roots and branches.” In due course the petition ...
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 |