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Chess is also a means of portraying the conflicts between Catholic Spain and Protestant England in terms of two clearly opposing sides. [12] Scholars have claimed that Middleton's chess allegory also has a racist aspect, in that the difference between England and Spain in cast in terms of skin color.
- 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 ...
Political Interpretations of Middleton's A Game at Chess (1624) T. H. HOWARD-HILL University ofSouth Carolina Few readers today would wholeheartedly endorse Swinburne's character-ization of Middleton's play as 'one of the most complete and exquisite works of artistic ingenuity and dexterity that ever excited or offended, enraptured
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
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
tion of chess allegory in which Middleton wrote A Game at Chess. I Middleton's most important source with respect to his allegorical use of chess is the "living chess game" in the fifth book of Gargantua et Pan-tagruel by FranSois Rabelais. He also consulted Arthur Saul's manual, The Famous Game of Chesse-Play, a debt first noticed by Moore,s ...
Dates of Action: 1624. Location: London, England. Description of Artwork: Thomas Middleton's play, A Game at Chess is a thinly disguised allegory of the failed marriage alliance between the thrones of England/Scotland and Spain in 1623. The play examined the real-life drama surrounding the impending marriage of the heir to the thrownes, prince ...
