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 an...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Nelson, Holly Faith 1966- (HerausgeberIn), Daems, Jim 1966- (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press [2019]
Schriftenreihe:	Cultures of play, 1300-1700 2
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1564-1745 Englisch Literatur Spiel > Motiv Krieg > Motiv English literature / Early modern, 1500-1700 / History and criticism English literature / Early modern 1500-1700 Criticism, interpretation, etc Aufsatzsammlung
Zusammenfassung:	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
Beschreibung:	206 Seiten
ISBN:	9789463728010