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A chessboard. 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.
- Thomas Middleton
- 1966
Jun 13, 2023 · Over the course of nine days, the Globe Theatre held consecutive performances of Thomas Middleton’s A Game at Chess (1624). It, by far, is Middleton’s most successful play, with three thousand people in attendance for each performance—thirty thousand people, a seventh of London’s population, had attended a performance of A Game at Chess. 1 By the ninth day, the play came to a forced ...
Thomas Middleton's A Game at Chess was a phenomenon, being – by several criteria – the most successful play of the Tudor/Stuart era. It ran for nine consecutive days at the Globe, from 5–14 August 1624 (interrupted only by the standard prohibition against playing on Sunday 8 August), at a time when repertoires normally changed almost daily to provide fresh fare for playgoers.
- Richard Dutton
- 2004
A Game at Chess, in other words, has two faces: it looks one way in praise of the king, the other way in derision; it manages to be both a glowing idealization and an uproarious satire of the ...
18 But Middleton’s play does not present the chess-game as an inset moral exemplum, it allows the whole of the stage space to be taken over by the game: “What of the game called chess-play can be made / To make a stage-play shall this day be played” (A Game at Chess, Prologue 1-2). 31 As John Holles put it in his unique eye-witness report of Middleton’s “vulgar pasquin”, “The ...
- Supriya Chaudhuri
- 2021
population, packed the Globe during the nine performances of A Game at Chess. The loud cheers from the theater echoed across London and testified to the audiences' delight with Thomas Middleton's brutal satire of Catholicism, Spain, and Gondomar, the former Spanish ambassador.2 A Game at Chess drew Lord Haughton to his first performance in ten ...
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Thomas Middleton’s A Game at Chess was a phenomenon, being – by several criteria – the most successful play of the Tudor/Stuart era. It ran for nine consecutive days at the Globe, from 5 ...
