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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... story of Solyman the Magnificent, a ruler misled by an unscrupulous adviser into believing that his son Mustapha was disloyal. In 1739 this general situation could be paralleled more or less readily to that of George II, Walpole, and ...
... stories and playes” (127). “Away,” he urged, “with your Tragedies, and Comedies, and Masques, and Pastorals, & whatsoever other names they have, that soften 9Jonas Barish observes that “Prynne evidently wishes both to exploit the ...
... story. In fact, some of the works he calls “courtier plays” prove to be more critical than complimentary. He demonstrates at length that the best courtier plays of 1632–42 “show the stage acting not as an extravagant and narrowly ...
... story of the widow of Ephesus who is wooed and won by *The Parsons Wedding is accorded a separate title page with the date 1663 in Killigrew's Comedies, and Tragedies (1664). One might note that of the ten plays in that volume, all have ...
... story y' did somthing please me, coming nigh what I find daily by experience verified, I could not chuse but digest it into action” [2r]), he comments on the nature of his characters, the usefulness of depicting evil on the stage, and ...
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 |