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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... Richard Baker remarked more tartly in his Theatrum Redivivum ( 1662 ) that Prynne's " Reason proves it no more unlawfull to see a Play , then to eat a Pudding " ( 17 ) . " If all things must be cast away , that may be ... abused , " he ...
... Richard , second Earl of Holland . Though the term itself did not come into vogue until after the Restoration , a " broadpiece " was a twenty - shilling coin . In calling Gough a jackal , Wright is remembering the old belief that a ...
... Richard Brome ( apparently not a relative ) , was glad to think that now new Stars shine forth , and do pretend , Wit shall be cherisht , and Poets finde a Friend . This makes these sleeping Poems now creep forth , As innocent of wrong ...
... Richard Whitlock , Zootomia ( 1654 ) ... the slightest Pamphlet is now adayes more vendible then the Works of learnedest men . -Humphrey Moseley , Poems of Mr. John Milton ( 1645 ) But some Historians will gather them together , and ...
... Richard Whitlock put it , " We live in an Age wherein never was lesse Quarter given to Paper " ( 229 ) . Fredrick Siebert has counted some twenty Thomason pamphlets of various sorts for the year 1640 , a figure that rocketed to over a ...
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 |