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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... Royal Shakespeare Company played it to full houses at The Swan in Strafford in 1992 and The Pit (Barbican Centre) in 1993. Valuable for conveying the serious undertones in the text, this production also may be said to have provided ...
... royal removal surely was, Laud's chancellorship of the University there, since 1630, may have helped to make the move seem more reasonable. Moreover, Christ Church, a royal foundation, provided a natural base of operations.) Once the ...
... Royal protection was irrelevant. Furthermore, enforcers of the ordinance were “required, to pull down and demolish, or cause or procure to be pulled down and demolished all Stage-Galleries, Seats, and Boxes, erected or used, or which ...
... Royal CHARLES, and with a cloud of thunder / Disperse this bed of Snakes, and keep them under” (20). Here and elsewhere the authors' caricaturing of actual people conveys some of the bite of political cartoons of a later day. And as ...
... royal family be destroyed, and generally aroused attention with his violence and womanizing.” In any case, the author of Rombus achieves a sort of closet-theater coup when he has his titular “moderator” ordain of them all that - '90ne ...
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 |