Plays for Puritans
Anne Barton, 18 December 1980
Puritanism and Theatre
by Margot Heinemann.
Cambridge, 300 pp., £12.50, March 1980,0 521 22602 3 Show More
by Margot Heinemann.
Cambridge, 300 pp., £12.50, March 1980,
John Webster: Citizen and Dramatist
by M.C. Bradbrook.
Weidenfeld, 205 pp., £10, October 1980,0 297 77813 7 Show More
by M.C. Bradbrook.
Weidenfeld, 205 pp., £10, October 1980,
“... plays do survive – Thomas Drue’s The Duchess of Suffolk, Davenport’s King John and Matilda, Arthur Wilson’s The Swisser, or Glapthorne’s Albertus Wallerstein – and others preserve a sketchy existence through the records of censorship and prosecution. Massinger causes Miss Heinemann some difficulty. She (rightly) contrasts the fundamentally ... ”