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Conclusion,acters. 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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Book 2020nd the early modern playhouse provided apt conditions for vicariousplay. From the romantic chase to the financial gamble, and in legal contest and war, the twenty-first century is still engaging the game.  With its extensive appendices, the book will appeal to readers interested in period games and

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The Psychology of Perception and Cognitionir central importance to humanity and the relationship between gaming and risk theory that developed in the seventeenth century. It identifies the pivotal role of the court in gaming and the widespread passion for games and sets out the study’s diverse primary sources. Towards the end of the chapter

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04317-0he hearts suit presents dramatists with an emblem for plots relating to love. The offstage game in the early . is briefly discussed offering a contrast with the more dramatically exciting staged games of later dramatists. In John Cooke’s . Or . the characteristics of Gleek—its bluffing and requireme

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,Planning in practice — a case study,’s journey, confirmed by the contemporary understanding of the board’s cosmic symbolism. In a further layer of metaphoric implication, a quartered game board is understood to represent the human body. With further sexual imagery supplied by the board’s patterning and the term ‘bearing’, this two-per