Games and Game Playing in European Art and Literature, 16th-17th Centuries / / ed. by Robin O'Bryan.
This collection of essays examines the vogue for games and game playing as expressed in art and literature in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. Focusing on games as a leitmotif of creative expression, these scholarly inquiries are framed as a response to two main questions: how were games u...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cultures of Play ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. A Passion for Games
- Part I: Chess and Luxury Playing Cards
- 1. “Mad Chess” with a Mad Dwarf Jester
- 2. Changing Hands. Jean Desmarets, Stefano della Bella, and the Jeux de Cartes
- Part II: Gambling and Games of Chance
- 3. “A game played home”. The Gendered Stakes of Gambling in Shakespeare’s Plays
- 4. “Now if the devil have bones,/ These dice are made of his”. Dice Games on the English Stage in the Seventeenth Century
- 5. The World Upside Down. Giuseppe Maria Mitelli’s Games and the Performance of Identity in the Early Modern World
- Part III: Outdoor and Sportive Games
- 6. “To catch the fellow, and come back again”. Games of Prisoner’s Base in Early Modern English Drama
- 7. Against Opposition (at Home). Middleton and Rowley’s The World Tossed at Tennis as Tennis
- Part IV: Games on Display
- 8. Ordering the World. Games in the Architectural Iconography of Stirling Castle, Scotland
- 9. The Games of Philipp Hainhofer. Ludic Appreciation and Use in Early Modern Art Cabinets
- Index