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 wrote that " a Play read , hath not half the pleasure of a Play Acted ; for though it have the pleasure of ingenious Speeches ; yet it wants the pleasure of Gracefull action ; and we may well acknow- ledg , that ...
... Richard Smyth , secon- dary of the Poultry Compter , owned the first folios of Shakespeare , Jonson , and Davenant . The library of Walter Rea is said to have contained " a good sprinkling of poems , plays and Roman Catholic Literature ...
... Richard Rogers and William Ley , this extraordinary document includes more than five hundred plays . In the same year , and apparently in competitive response , the bookseller Edward Archer came out with a longer list . At the back of ...
... Richard Fanshawe wrote at the beginning of the decade : " White Peace ( the beautiful'st of things ) / Seemes here her everlasting rest / To fix " ( " An Ode , " ll . 37-39 , in Shorter Poems ) . So far as Parliament was concerned ...
... Richard Whitlock wrote a little more expansively : " Wisedome is Debtor ... to the Sock , and Buskin ; Nor is it such a Paradox as it may seem to sound to some halfe - witted Eares ; for I dare aver what hath been writ for the Stage ...
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 |