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Games and Gaming in Early Modern Drama - Stakes and Hazards (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Games and Gaming in Early Modern Drama - Stakes and Hazards (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Early Modern Literature in History
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This book is a close taxonomic study of the pivotal role of games
in early modern drama. The presence of the game motif has often
been noticed, but this study, the most comprehensive of its kind,
shows how games operate in more complex ways than simple metaphor
and can be syntheses of emblem and dramatic device. Drawing on
seventeenth-century treatises, including Francis Willughby's Book
of Games, which only became available in print in 2003, and divided
into chapters on Dice, Cards, Tables (Backgammon), and Chess, the
book brings back into focus the symbolism and divinatory origins of
games. The work of more than ten dramatists is analysed, from the
Shakespeare and Middleton canon to rarer plays such as The Spanish
Curate, The Two Angry Women of Abington and The Cittie Gallant.
Games and theatre share common ground in terms of performance,
deceit, plotting, risk and chance, and the early modern playhouse
provided apt conditions for vicarious play. From the romantic chase
to the financial gamble, and in legal contest and war, the
twenty-first century is still engaging the game. With its extensive
appendices, the book will appeal to readers interested in period
games and those teaching or studying early modern drama, including
theatre producers, and awareness of the vocabulary of period games
will allow further references to be understood in non-dramatic
texts.
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