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Countering anti-theatricality: Davenant and the drama of the protectorate (2012)
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Clare, J. (2012). Countering anti-theatricality: Davenant and the drama of the protectorate. In The Oxford handbook of literature and the English Revolution (498 - 515). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199560608.013.0027

This article begins with a discussion of the parliamentary-Puritan opposition to theatre during the Civil Wars and after the regicide. It then turns to the restoration of the monarchy in 1653, and the efforts of Richard Flecknoe and William Davenant... Read More about Countering anti-theatricality: Davenant and the drama of the protectorate.