A Game at Chess
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780719015465 (0719015464)
Publish date: August 24th 1993
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Pages no: 223
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...