Games and Game Playing in European Art and Literature, 16th-17th Centuries

Table of Contents\nList of Illustrations\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction. A Passion for Games\nPart I: Chess and Luxury Playing Cards\n1. “Mad Chess” with a Mad Dwarf Jester\n2. Changing Hands. Jean Desmarets, Stefano della Bella, and the Jeux de Cartes\nPart II: Gambling and Games of Chance\n3. “A game played home”. The Gendered Stakes of Gambling in Shakespeare’s Plays\n4. “Now if the devil have bones,/ These dice are made of his”. Dice Games on the English Stage in the Seventeenth Century\n5. The World Upside Down. Giuseppe Maria Mitelli’s Games and the Performance of Identity in the Early Modern World\nPart III: Outdoor and Sportive Games\n6. “To catch the fellow, and come back again”. Games of Prisoner’s Base in Early Modern English Drama\n7. Against Opposition (at Home). Middleton and Rowley’s The World Tossed at Tennis as Tennis\nPart IV: Games on Display\n8. Ordering the World. Games in the Architectural Iconography of Stirling Castle, Scotland\n9. The Games of Philipp Hainhofer. Ludic Appreciation and Use in Early Modern Art Cabinets\nIndex