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Winter Fruit : English Drama, 1642-1660 / Dale B.J. Randall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Randall, Dale B. J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Puritans--England--History--17th century.
- Puritans.
- Theater and state--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- Theater and state.
- Literature and history--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- Literature and history.
- English drama--17th century--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- Great Britain--History--Civil War, 1642-1649--Literature and the war.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--History--Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660--Literature and the revolution.
- Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.
- Cromwell, Oliver.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (472 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.Not so, demonstrates Dale Randall in this magisterial study, the first book in nearly sixty years to attempt a comprehensive analysis of mid-seventeenth-century English drama.Throughout the official hiatus in playing, he shows, dramas continued to be composed
- Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents ; List of Illustrations; Preface; 1. A Case of Cultural Poetics; 2. The Sun Declining; 3. Kinds of Closure; 4. The Paper War; 5. Arms and the Men; 6. The Famous Tragedy of Charles I; 7. Anglo-Tyrannus; 8. Shows, Motions, and Drolls; 9. Mungrell Masques and Their Kin; 10. The Persistence of Pastoral; 11. The Craft of Translation; 12. Fruits of Seasons Gone; 13. Tragedies; 14. Comedies; 15. The Cavendish Phenomenon; 16. Tragicomedies; 17. The Rising Sun; Appendixes; A. The Preface to Leonard WiWan's Orgula (1658
- B. Richard Flecknoe's A Short Discourse of theEnglish Stage (1664)Works Cited; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-420) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813131238
- 0813131235
- 9780813157702
- 0813157706
- OCLC:
- 900344949
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