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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... earlier scholars, and, more or less recently, Geoffrey Aggeler, Margot Heinemann, David Underdown, Michael Wilding, Kevin Sharpe, Albert Tricomi, Derek Hirst, Ira Clark, and Nancy Klein Maguire. Numerous others are noted here in the ...
... earlier years. It is a fact also that when we are confronted with a text on a table rather than players on a stage, we are likely to catch more of the author's words. A reader can always reread. The "Thomas Rymer, writing late in the ...
... earlier bit of historico-literary flotsam is even more relevant here: in December 1648, while imprisoned at Windsor, the King was reported to be “most delighted with Ben Johnson's playes, of any bookes that are here” (Perfect ...
... earlier, one might cite Jonson's famed praise of the sixty-eight-year-old Queen Elizabeth as the goddess Diana, “Queen and huntress, chaste and fair.” When James VI of Scotland came to the English throne in 1603, reinforcing his ...
... earlier, it turns out, the Commons had narrowly passed John Pym's Grand Remonstrance, which was essentially a vote of no confidence in the King's governance. Now, embedded in the celebratory written record of men's crimson velvet robes ...
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 |