Winter Fruit : English Drama, 1642-1660 /

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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 dr...

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Main Author: Randall, Dale B. J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [1995]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Cromwell, Oliver, > 1599-1658.
Toneelstukken.
Engels.
Theater and state.
Puritans.
Literature and history.
English drama.
POETRY > General.
DRAMA > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Theâtre > Politique gouvernementale > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Litterature et histoire > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Theâtre anglais > 17e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Puritans > England > History > 17th century.
Theater and state > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Literature and history > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
English drama > 17th century > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
England.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1642-1649 (Guerre civile)
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1642-1660 (Revolution puritaine)
Great Britain > History > Civil War, 1642-1649.
Great Britain > History > Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • App. A. The Preface to Leonard Willan's Orgula (1658)
  • App. B. Richard Flecknoe's, A Short Discourse of the English Stage (1664).

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