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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... Theater” (Pocula Castalia 114). Thomas Jordan held that performances in “all their glory” were “much advantaged with the illustrative faculties of Musick, Painting, and Dancing” (Fancy's Festivals A2r-v). Richard Flecknoe warned of his ...
... Theater hath been so much out-acted, congratulate thy owne happinesse, that in this silence of the Stage, thou hast a liberty to reade these inimitable Playes, to dwell and converse in these immortall Groves, which were only shewd our ...
... theater audiences we surely may extrapolate the need for caution when it comes to generalizing about readers. On the other hand, we need not be hesitant about collecting such clues as come our way. Humphrey Moseley, for example ...
... theaters, obviously it is necessary to consider the period just prior to 1642.” As soon as one does so, the importance of the court—and often its idealization—become apparent. In 1633 Thomas Carew had had Religion assure Britain's King ...
... Theater A1r). We find it in The Actors Remonstrance (1643), which speaks of the actors as “friends, young Gentlemen ... theaters, moreover, we should bear in mind that while we know what lay immediately ahead, the dramatists, players ...
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 |