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The characters' faces are caricatures of de Dominis and Gondomar. A Game at Chess is a comic satirical play by Thomas Middleton, first staged in August 1624 by the King's Men at the Globe Theatre. The play is notable for its political content, dramatizing a conflict between Spain and England.
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Jun 13, 2023 · Over the course of nine days, the Globe Theatre held consecutive performances of Thomas Middleton’s A Game at Chess (1624). It, by far, is Middleton’s most successful play, with three thousand people in attendance for each performance—thirty thousand people, a seventh of London’s population, had attended a performance of A Game at Chess ...
Oct 20, 2016 · The title partly alludes to a game of chess played in Jacobean dramatist Thomas Middleton’s play Women Beware Women, but also to another of his plays, A Game at Chess.
Aug 14, 2019 · A game at chess. by. Middleton, Thomas, d. 1627. Publication date. 1993. Publisher. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press. Collection.
testified to the audiences' delight with Thomas Middleton's brutal satire of Catholicism, Spain, and Gondomar, the former Spanish ambassador.2 A Game at Chess drew Lord Haughton to his first performance in ten years,
Thomas Middleton's A Game at Chess : a case study; By Richard Dutton; Edited by Jane Milling, University of Exeter, Peter Thomson, University of Exeter; Book: The Cambridge History of British Theatre; Online publication: 28 March 2008; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521650403.018
Thomas Middleton A GAME AT CHESS licensed 12 June 1624 full synopsis available, click here Go to "Notes of Interest" Go to "Plays to be Compared" BLACK BISHOP The Black Bishop represents the Father-General of the Jesuits. He helps to forge evidence when the Black Bishop's Pawn's lechery is revealed by the White Queen's Pawn.
