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Cervantes in Seventeenth-century England garners well over a
thousand English references to Cervantes and his works, thus
providing the fullest and most intriguing early English picture
ever made of the writings of Spain's greatest writer. Besides
references to the nineteen books of Cervantes's prose available to
seventeenth-century English readers (including four little-known
abridgments), this new volume includes entries by such notable
writers as Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, William Wycherley, Aphra
Behn, Thomas Hobbes, John Dryden, and John Locke, as well as many
lesser-known and anonymous writers. A reader will find, among
others, a counterfeiter, a midwife, an astrologer, a princess, a
diarist, and a Harvard graduate. Altogether this broad range of
writers, famed and forgotten alike, brings to light not only
sectarian and political tensions of the day, but also glimpses of
the arts-of weaving, singing, acting, engraving, and painting. Even
dancing, for there was a dance called the "Sancho Panzo."
" Probably the most blighted period in the history of English drama was the time of the Civil Wars, Common wealth, 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 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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