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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... later establishing and reinforcing the authority of the new monarch from Scotland. Ironically, therefore, the rhetorical mode that once appears to have strengthened both England's throne and the pride of its people almost certainly ...
... later, “the court was full of faction and animosity” (1:187). John Suckling included in his play Brennoralt (1639–41; printed 1646) a speech to a king that in retrospect seems especially pointed: Nor are you, Sir, assur'd of all behinde ...
... later said of himself, “I laboured nothing more, than that the External Publick Worship of God ... might be preserved” (224). During these same years Charles also launched a series of proposals for replenishing the strained royal ...
... later telling of an incident elsewhere reported—also with suspect detail—in May 1639 (Jacobean and Caroline Stage 1:278 and 5:1235). themselves to an ecclesiastical court worried about being depicted onstage, 22 W I N T E R F R U I T.
... later years John Evelyn recorded finding in a field a medal that showed Charles, armed and crowned, sitting hand in hand with Henrietta Maria, a sun over his head, a moon over hers, with both treading down a serpent representing “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 |