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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... Queen's own confessor, Robert Philips (134-35). Certainly Philips was a Romishness in St. Paul's itself, how he petitioned Laud for a benefice, how Laud tried to provide one, and how no benefice was forthcoming. Though we do not know ...
... Queen to The Hague. In act IV of the pamphlet the King learns that his bishop has been caught, his informant being a jester—a sure reference to Archibald Armstrong. Archie, as he was known, had served the Stuarts as courtjester from the ...
... Queen, and the Prince, and on 16 and 21 July two acts were passed regarding their sale.'3 Meanwhile, arising out of the whole volatile situation, Crouch's lively piece— utilizing hyberbole to heighten one's sense of how far matters had ...
... Queens (1609), in which Queen Anne danced as Queen of the Amazons, and to Davenant's Salmacida Spolia (1640), in which Queen Henrietta Maria gave what was to prove the most famous Amazonian performance of the prewar period. Instead of a ...
... Queen of the Amazons, as Birkhead says in his dedication to the King, “I aimd at yo character of a good Sovereign” (174v).” The problem is that the Queen's subjects, being more typical Amazons, are rebelling against her because she is ...
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 |