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A Game at Chess - Thomas Middleton (Paperback, New Ed)
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A Game at Chess - Thomas Middleton (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: The Revels Plays
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For many years Middleton's "A Game at Chess" was more notorious
than read, considered rather a phenomenon of theatrical history
than a pre-eminent piece of dramatic writing. "A Game at Chess" was
a nine days' wonder, an exceptional play of King James' reign on
account of its unprecedented representation of matters of state
usually forbidden on the stage. The King's Men performed the play
uninterruptedly between 5th and 14th August, 1624 at their Globe
Theatre, attracting large audiences, before the Privy Council
closed the theatre by the King's command. More recently, growing
interest in the connections of economics and politics with
authorship have promoted readings that locate the play so firmly
within its historical context as propaganda that, again, its
worthwhile literary and theatrical qualities are neglected. In
writing "A Game at Chess", Middleton employed the devices of the
neoclassical comedy of intrigue within the matrix of the
traditional oral play. What might have seemed old-fashioned
allegory was rejuvenated by his adoption of the fashionable game of
chess as the fiction within which the play was set. The product of
Middleton's experienced craftsmanship is at once deceptively simple
and surprisingly complex. -- .
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