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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... young gentlemen in Chelsea in 1641 and then eight years later was finally published, according to the stationer, “to sweeten the brackish distempers of a deluded age.” Time and again the plays printed during the theatrical blackout ...
... young Gentlemen, Merchants Factors, and Prentizes” to treat them and their harlots in taverns, and their borrowing of money at first sight from gullible gallants (A2r-v). On the last page—in fact, in his closing sentence—the ...
... young Charles was on the opposite coast, sailing for Scotland. '5These names may refer to Sir Ferdinand Gorge and Colonel Herbert Morley, but probably the names of various men whom either lady had met would have served much the same ...
... Gerbier's new academy to introduce arts and sciences to the young, its pretensions amused the pamphleteers (see Hotson 134–36). - about the identity of this horrible creature, the monster is T H E P A P E R W A R 6 I.
... young men of position might be expected to seek part of their training in the finishing school of Mars, even when England was at peace, and when some common soldiers found themselves sloshing through foreign mud (the earlier lot of Ben ...
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 |