‘Pawn! Sufficiently Holy But Unmeasurably Politic’: The Pawns Plot in Middleton’s <em>A Game at Chess</em>
Thomas Middleton’s allegorical play A Game at Chess was perhaps the most sensational cultural event of the English Renaissance. It was so incendiary that a spectator declared it may have constituted a hanging offence, and so popular that the concept of the theatrical run had to be invented to accomm...
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| Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2019-03-01
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| Series: | Journal of Early Modern Studies |
| Online Access: | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-jems/article/view/7109 |