A Game at Chess: Thomas Middleton
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780719016349 (0719016347)
ASIN: 719016347
Publish date: March 15th 1997
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
A Renaissance drama satirising relations between the English and the Spanish in the 1620s. Fun, in a surreal kind of way: the whole thing is presented literally as a chess-game, with the Spanish as the black side and the English as the white. Think Alice through the Looking-Glass but with actual con...