Poetry and the Cromwellian Protectorate

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.Edward Holberton shows that the Protectorate''s instabi...