Games and Game Playing in European Art and Literature, 16th-17th Centuries /

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This collection of essays examines the vogue for games and game playing as expressed in art, architecture, and literature in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. Moving beyond previous scholarship on game theory, game monographs, and period and regional studies on games, this volume analyzes a...

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Otros Autores: Chovanec, Kevin (Contribuidor), Guidicini, Giovanna (Contribuidor), Herrold, Megan (Contribuidor), Kaethler, Mark (Contribuidor), Lebens, Naomi (Contribuidor), O'Bryan, Robin (Editor , Contribuidor), Packard, Bethany (Contribuidor), Rocco, Patricia (Contribuidor), Sundin, Greger (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
Colección:Cultures of Play ; 1
Temas:
Cultural Studies.
Early Modern Studies.
Game Studies.
History, Art History, and Archaeology.
Literary Theory, Criticism, and History.
ART / History / Renaissance.
Cards.
Chess.
Dice.
Early Modern social history.
Game Play.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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