"The City Match" and British Drama

Paper Summary:

The paper focuses on the work of Jasper Mayne, a popular playwright before and immediately after the Restoration, and the author of "The City Match". The paper explains that "The City Match," is not a tragedy, but it does reflect the political concerns of the day, and its dialogue shows why the Puritan Parliament was so eager to silence the theaters for political reasons. The paper highlights how "The City Match" was written during a critical juncture between two very different styles and eras of British drama.

From the Paper:

"One of the most important events in British literature was the closing of the British theater during the period of history known as the Commonwealth, when the monarchy was abolished and the Puritan Parliament was officially in control of the nation. Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell ordered that stage plays were forbidden because such "lascivious Mirth and Levity" did not "comport with public calamities and seasons of humiliation," in other words, because play-going did not conform to the appropriate respect that citizens should feel for the sinfulness of the world and their own fallen nature (Wright 75)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Covington, Sarah. "John Foxe and His World." Renaissance Quarterly. 56. 4. (Winter, 2003): 1293-1295. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0034-4338%28200324%2956%3A4%3C1293%3AJFAHW%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N
• Gurr, Andrew. The Shakespearean Stage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
• "Jasper Mayne." The Classic Encyclopedia.6 Oct 2007. http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Jasper_Mayne
• Wright, Louis B. "The Reading of Plays during the Puritan Revolution." The Huntington Library Bulletin. No.6. 73-108. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1935-0708%28193411%290%3A6%3C73%3ATROPDT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A

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