Drama and Politics in the English Civil War.(Review)

The Modern Language Review | January 1, 2000| | Copyright

Drama and Politics in the English Civil War. By SUSAN WISEMAN. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xviii + 297 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $64.95.

Since the publication in 1928 of Leslie Hotson's Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, it has been recognized that theatrical activity did not cease with the closure of the theatres in 1642. Hotson's reading of the news journals published in the civil wars and commonwealth produced considerable evidence of illicit playing, often under the cover of rope and sword dancing, and the raiding of such ...

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