...John D. Staines Abstract This essay explores the political implications of the periodization divides created by the closing of the public theaters in 1642 at the start of the English Civil War and their reopening in 1660 at the restoration of Charles II. The meaning of the theater, and the meanings...

... of the English Civil War- though, of course, the two influences may be combined.8 It is beyond question that the man whom Milton recommended on the basis of an extensive knowledge of languages would have had a thorough familiarity with Vergil, particularly the Aeneid, and the sim...

...? ” In The English Civil War: The Essential Readings , edited by Gaunt Peter , 14 – 32 . Malden, MA : Blackwell . Shawcross John T. 1988 . “Paradise Regained”: Worthy t’Have Not Remained So Long Unsung . Pittsburgh, PA : Duquesne University Press . Stein Gertrude . 1967...

... because Milton “did not observe this distinction regularly, if at all.” 4 Milton’s contemporaries disputed the meaning of these events no less than do modern-day scholars, who refer to them variously as the English Revolution, the English Civil War or Civil Wars, the Puritan Revolution...

... University Press . ———. 2002 . “ Classical Liberty and the Coming of the English Civil War .” In The Values of Republicanism in Early Modern Europe. Vol. 2 of Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage , edited by Van Gelderen Marin Skinner Quentin , 9 – 28 . New York : Cambridge University...

... to the crisis of sovereignty” in the English civil war (17 1). Let me take as a central example Kahn’s rich analysis of the encounter of Satan, Sin, and Death in Paradise Lost. It begins with Fletcher’s explicit parallel between the fixated demonic agent of alle- gory (cf. Satan’s “fixed mind...

...- bility. Instead, women writers “participated, tangentially and head on, in debates about history writing that effected change” ( 3). Reconstruction of the complex terms in which that participation occurred is one announced aim of Looser’s accounts of Lucy Hutchinson’s memoir of the English Civil...

.... The implicit narrative logic of a noble, peace-loving Mongol validating English civil war prefigures, and perhaps inspires, Rowe’s later dramatic argument. Such historical revisions influenced the seventeenth-century plays about Timur to differing degrees. Though more a tragedy of misdi- rected love...

... peoples more than others (4). Laura Doyle locates the origins of Atlantic modernity in the mid-seventeenth-century transatlantic circulation of people, goods, and texts, which carried the Prot- estant, Anglo-Saxon discourses of liberty surrounding England’s Civil War to the English colonies...

... peoples more than others (4). Laura Doyle locates the origins of Atlantic modernity in the mid-seventeenth-century transatlantic circulation of people, goods, and texts, which carried the Prot- estant, Anglo-Saxon discourses of liberty surrounding England’s Civil War to the English colonies...

... locates the origins of Atlantic modernity in the mid-seventeenth-century transatlantic circulation of people, goods, and texts, which carried the Prot- estant, Anglo-Saxon discourses of liberty surrounding England’s Civil War to the English colonies in North America. Doyle’s genealogy of freedom...

..., and texts, which carried the Prot- estant, Anglo-Saxon discourses of liberty surrounding England’s Civil War to the English colonies in North America. Doyle’s genealogy of freedom covers three centuries and brings into dialogue writers of European and African descents. Many of the eighteenth...

... peoples more than others (4). Laura Doyle locates the origins of Atlantic modernity in the mid-seventeenth-century transatlantic circulation of people, goods, and texts, which carried the Prot- estant, Anglo-Saxon discourses of liberty surrounding England’s Civil War to the English colonies...

... locates the origins of Atlantic modernity in the mid-seventeenth-century transatlantic circulation of people, goods, and texts, which carried the Prot- estant, Anglo-Saxon discourses of liberty surrounding England’s Civil War to the English colonies in North America. Doyle’s genealogy of freedom...

... insignificant shares. Writers of lives of the royalist and parlia- mentary leaders usually think it necessary to describe fully the gen- eral course of the English civil wars. This is superfluous, though a thorough knowledge of the civil wars should pervade all that is written about participants...

... England (in Hurne’s case) in which “individualities”on the one hand, and the particularities of such conjunctures as the English Civil War on the other, were equally abstracted away Hence, according to God- win, the philosophical historians have produced the ineluctable logic of “probability...

.... 428 MLQ December 2005 through eulogies of Tory heroes but also through his treatment of English history. The English Civil War is rendered more remote in time than the contest between Octavian and Antony, but its remnants— physical and moral—still...

... excellent summarizing essay for Frank Lentric- chia and Thomas McLaughlin’s Critical Terms for Literary Study: The discovery of America, the English Civil War, the French Revolu- tion-these were historical events that had a facticity and objectivity, a presence in the world, that allowed...

... earned the land on which Bowen’s Court would be built through military service, Bowen stresses that he demonstrated no deep emotional attachment to either of the parties for which he fought during the English Civil War: running afoul of the king’s party while...

..., and Russians” (NAS,xiii)? In the early years of the twenti- eth century did people really speak of “Chinese-Americans”(NAS, xiii)? Does a dis- tinction between the American and the English Renaissance based on the experience of civil war hold when Fisher himself notes, “[Tlhe English civil war...