Titlebook: Games and Gaming in Early Modern Drama; Stakes and Hazards Caroline Baird Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020 Ga

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,Planning in practice — a case study,son game becomes a metaphor of the ‘game’ between the sexes. Two very different races take place in Henry Porter’s . and the anonymous .. The game scenes are read not as stand-alone vignettes but as games that spill over the ludic border and across the whole play.

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General Introduction to Part Twoacters. Games and their varying levels of chance and strategy, all requiring the primitive desire to win, provide a prism to reflect early modern society and its stakes and hazards: social climbing and falling, religious, generational and gender contests, and political power struggles.

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Introduction,d not so commonplace—games, from the romantic chase to the financial gamble and legal contest, and even war. The chapter reviews existing literature on games in drama and establishes the study’s taxonomic approach as well as the parallels between games and theatre and why the early modern playhouse encourages vicarious play.

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DICE: The Roll/Role of Chance and Luck,ster in this zero-sum contest. Texts include two city comedies, Middleton’s . and Heywood’s . (1604), both of which feature an early dicing which reflects the respective themes, and Kyd’s tragedy, . (1592). Here Mumchance, a game played in silence, becomes a motif of the entire play.

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CARDS: Face Cards, Rules and Secrecy,nt for three players—reflect the play’s triangular relationships and denouement, whilst in Middleton’s . a character is named after Primero, a popular forerunner of poker. The motifs of heart and hand are particularly prevalent in the domestic tragedy, ..