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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... Lords, who wished to extend it only to 1 January 1648. Meanwhile, the army entered London on 6 August 1647, and on 22 October there came a more potent “Ordinance for the Lord Mayor and City of London, and the Justices of Peace to ...
... Lord hath made us subject” (a 3r). In the latter part of 1640 the scattered hopes that were raised by the convening of the Long Parliament led some to anticipate a new era of cooperation and reform." The ensuing disappointment, however ...
... Lord of Canterbury is a monk, a rogue and a traitor”—then added, as if speaking to Laud, “Who's the fool now? Did you not hear the news from Stirling about the liturgy?” (Carlton 155). Archie referred to the disastrous attemptin July ...
... Lord North, observed ruefully in looking back on this period from the relative calm of his Restoration retirement, the midcentury English found themselves hotly engaged in a paper war (29).” The pity was that it came to have such deadly ...
... Lord Lovel in A New Way to Pay Old Debts (1622), 3Building on this last possibility, one might test the hypothesis that the quite different lives of noble and common soldiers, of officers and men, tended to be paralleled structurally in ...
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 |