The Cromwellian Protectorate was a period of innovation in poetry and drama, as well as constitutional debate. This new account of the period focuses on key cultural institutions - Parliament, an embassy to Sweden, Oxford University, Cromwell's state funeral - to examine this poetry's relationship with a culture in transformation and crisis.
The Cromwellian Protectorate was a period of innovation in poetry and drama, as well as constitutional debate. Poets including Andrew Marvell, Edmund Waller, and Sir William Davenant experimented with different forms of verse, from praise and funeral elegy to masque opera, to explore the cultural tensions and instabilities that shaped Cromwell's regime. Poetry and the Cromwellian Protectorate offers a new approach to the literary and cultural history of
the seventeenth century by focusing on key cultural institutions - Parliament, an embassy to Sweden, Oxford University, Cromwell's state funeral - to examine this poetry's searching and often illuminatingly
compromised relationship with a culture in transformation and crisis.
The Cromwellian Protectorate was a period of innovation in poetry and drama, as well as constitutional debate. Poets including Andrew Marvell, Edmund Waller, and Sir William Davenant experimented with different forms of verse, from praise and funeral elegy to masque opera, to explore the cultural tensions and instabilities that shaped Cromwell's regime. Poetry and the Cromwellian Protectorate offers a new approach to the literary and cultural history of
the seventeenth century by focusing on key cultural institutions - Parliament, an embassy to Sweden, Oxford University, Cromwell's state funeral - to examine this poetry's searching and often illuminatingly
compromised relationship with a culture in transformation and crisis.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work...
The first detailed scholarly study of this evocative period in Irish history, Cromwellian Ireland is now reissued in paperback with a new historiographical essay.
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