Staging the revolution offers a reappraisal of the weight and
volume of theatrical output during the commonwealth and early
Restoration, both in terms of live performances and performances on
the paper stage. It argues that the often-cited notion that 1642
marked an end to theatrical production in England until the
playhouses were reopened in 1660 is a product of post-Restoration
re-writing of the English civil wars and the representations of
royalists and parliamentarians that emerged in the 1640s and 1650s.
These retellings of recent events in dramatic form mean that drama
is central to civil-war discourse. Staging the revolution examines
the ways in which drama was used to rewrite the civil war and
commonwealth period and demonstrates that, far from marking a clear
cultural demarcation from the theatrical output of the early
seventeenth century, the Restoration is constantly reflecting back
on the previous thirty years. -- .
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