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A Game at Chess is a comic satirical play by Thomas Middleton, first staged in August 1624 by the King's Men at the Globe Theatre. The play is notable for its political content, dramatizing a conflict between Spain and England. The plot takes the form of a chess match, and the play includes some genuine chess moves. Instead of personal names ...
- Thomas Middleton
- 1966
Death and the Miser belongs to the tradition of memento mori, a term that describes works of art that remind the viewer of the inevitability of death.The painting shows the influence of popular 15th-century handbooks (including text and woodcuts) on the "Art of Dying Well" (Ars moriendi), intended to help Christians choose Christ over earthly and sinful pleasures.
4 hours ago · Lenka Ptáčníková (born 16 January 1976) is a Czech-born Icelandic chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster. She won twice the Czech women’s chess championship, in 1994 and 1996, and fourteen times, to date, the Icelandic women’s chess championship.
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