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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... Rebellion holding his head. Parliament confesses his wrongs, explains that “Machiavill was my master” (4), and presents his last will and testament “In the name of Lucifer, Amen” (5). Hell and the devil, in fact, lend color and force to ...
... rebellion, a brief resort to arms as a means of readjusting the social machine. Probably few dreamed that the conflict would develop into a full-scale revolution, with all that that meant for soldiers and citizens alike. And probably ...
... Rebellion, probably Henry Birkhead, sums up the two types succinctly, writing that “wealth, autority, & armour are / The portion of Comanders; want, submission, / And nakedness the share of private Soldiers” (175v). When the types are ...
... Rebellion (ca. 1657-59), possibly the work of Dr. Henry Birkhead, is an altogether different matter. Sometime Fellow of All Souls and founder of the Oxford Chair of Poetry, Birkhead gives us women who are not merely powerful but also ...
... rebellion. Determined to claim his dead father's rights, Zannazarro must prolong the old struggle and go against the kindly reassurance of General Oroandes, leader of the current King's army. When Zannazarro's sister, Eurione, meets ...
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 |