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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
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 ...
The situation reminds me of two kings remaining on the chess board, which is identified as a draw because an end to the game is impossible. In this format a certain confrontation between two sides ...
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 ...
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Jul 12, 2021 · A giant chess board appeals in much the same way as a giant cake. Rationally, one realises that the size doesn’t affect the essence of the thing. But the inner child knows that the jumbo version ...
