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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... play was; The Court Beggar is a full-blooded and uncompromising demonstration of the bankruptcy of the personal rule and ... Playes, which includes The Brothers, gives the date 1653 on its title page, together with the information “Never ...
... play at Gleek, or dance, or see a Comedy, or go to the Exchange i'the afternoon” (C2r). - Killigrew's Parsons Wedding is cut from a similar bolt but in its earliest surviving form (1663) claims a wider range of moral acceptability.” The ...
... play itself, however, than in the author's prefatory remarks. Though undeniably pedestrian, these are the product of ... Playes (1653), is one of the works in that collection with a separate title page dated 1652. of still-useful motifs ...
... play was composed. It may be that the play's ending is rather odd and inconclusive because Burnell wrote at a time of uncertainty, when it was still possible to hope for political union and religious coexistence between England and ...
... play, however, is to judge certain judges. One by one they are accused of “perturbing the Halcyon days of a peacefull ... Playes (1653) that comes with its individual title page dated 1652. *This is hardly true, one might observe, of ...
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 |