A Game at Chess

Thomas Middleton

By: T.H. Howard-Hill, T. H. Howard-Hill

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Paperback | 13 February 1997 | Edition Number 1

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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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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays Poetry Arts & Entertainment Acting & Theatre Studies History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Plays & Playwrights General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1500 to 1800 Plays

List of Illustrations
General Editors' Preface
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Documentary foundations
The occasion of the play
Theatrical history
Composition, sources and revision
The play
The textual situation and the present edition
A game at chess
Appendices
Documents and references
Lineation changes
Glossarial index to the annotations
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A Game at Chess

Thomas Middleton

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