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 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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Détails bibliographiques
Autres auteurs: O'Bryan, Robin (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Literature, Modern.
Games in literature.
Games in art.
Art, Modern.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Renaissance.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Art > 17e siecle > Histoire.
Litterature > 17e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature > 15e et 16e siecles > Histoire et critique.
Art, Modern > 17th century > History.
Literature, Modern > 17th century > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > 15th and 16th centuries > History and criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Part I. Chess and Luxury Playing Cards
  • 1. "Mad Chess" with a Mad Dwarf Jester
  • 2. Changing Hands
  • Part II. Gambling and Games of Chance
  • 3. "A game played home"
  • 4. "Now if the devil have bones, / These dice are made of his"
  • 5. The World Upside Down
  • Part III. Outdoor and Sportive Games
  • 6. "To catch the fellow, and come back again"
  • 7. Against Opposition (at Home)
  • Part IV. Games on Display
  • 8. Ordering the World
  • 9. The Games of Philipp Hainhofer

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