The Bridgewater Manuscript of Thomas Middleton's a Game at Chess (1624)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780773491137 (0773491139)
Publish date: June 1st 1995
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Pages no: 136
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...