Games and war in early modern English literature : from Shakespeare to Swift /

Games and war in early modern English literature : from Shakespeare to Swift /

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Imprint:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
Description:	206 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cultures of play, 1300-1700 ; 2 Cultures of play, 1300-1700.
Subject:	English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. English literature -- Early modern. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11965134

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Other authors / contributors:	Nelson, Holly Faith, 1966- editor. Daems, Jim, 1966- editor.
ISBN:	9463728015 9789463728010 9789048544837
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	This collection of nine essays carves out a new conceptual path in the field by theorizing the ways in which the language of games and warfare inform and illuminate each other in the early modern cultural imagination. They consider how warfare and games are mapped onto each other in aesthetically and ideologically significant ways in the early modern plays, poetry or prose of William Shakespeare, Thomas Morton, John Milton, Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, and Jonathan Swift, among others. Contributors interpret the terms 'war games' or 'games of war' broadly, freeing them to uncover the more complex and abstract interplay of war and games in the early modern mind, taking readers from the cockpits and clowns of Shakespearean drama, through the intriguing manuals of cryptographers and the ingenious literary wargames of Restoration women authors, to the witty but rancorous paper wars of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

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Call Number:	PR421 .G36 2019
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