UID:
almahu_9948619557902882
Umfang:
1 online resource (206 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9789048544837 (ebook)
Serie:
Cultures of play, 1300-1700
Inhalt:
This pioneering collection of nine original 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.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: ISBN 9789463728010
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9789048544837/type/BOOK
