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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... interesting because its pre-Interregnum elements are now impossible to factor out with certainty. Among the likeliest older bits, one might think, is Jolly's reference to a playwright knighted “In the North, the last great knighting ...
... interesting work, however, produced both at court and at Blackfriars, is The Queene of Arragom (1640) by the courtier-amateur William Habington—best known now for his lyrics in Castara (1634). At the outset one of the Aragonese ladies ...
... interesting is Russell's observation that “It is so well established in English folk memory that the charge against the Five Members was a political disaster, and the belief contains so much truth, that it is hard to remember that ...
... interesting to find a parliamentary “proposition” addressed to the King at Oxford on 24 November 1644 asking that he lend his authority to “the suppressing of interludes and stage plays: this Act to be perpetual” (Gardiner ...
... interesting on several counts. She neglects to give the year of her letter, but it may be deduced from her news that the Queen of Sweden had recently been brought to bed of a boy. Charles XI, the only son of Charles X and his Queen, was ...
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 |