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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... wrote for Whitehall “were limited in the material they could use, the diversity of opinion they could express, the range of conflicting or conventional attitudes which they could incorporate in their plays” (Theatre and Crisis 4). And ...
... wrote another Twelfth Night masque that took as its theme the merry death of Father Christmas, followed by the dance of the New Year and its twelve months. And for the last day of that same year Salusbury wrote A Show or Antimasque of ...
... wrote at a time of uncertainty, when it was still possible to hope for political union and religious coexistence between England and Ireland. One further tragicomedy, so-labeled in its published form and said to have been “Acted with ...
... wrote, one that he himself regarded as “the best of my flock” (A3r), was The Cardinal, performed at Blackfriars in 1641 but unpublished until 1653.43. As Charles Forker demonstrated some years ago, this play alludes indirectly but ...
... wrote a little more expansively: “Wisedome is Debtor. . . to the Sock, and Buskin; Nor is it such a Paradox as it may seem to sound to some halfe-witted Eares; for I dare aver *G.E. Bentley, concerned with an earlier period, summarizes ...
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 |