Games and War in Early Modern English Literature : From Shakespeare to Swift / edited by Holly Faith Nelson and Jim Daems.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nelson, Holly Faith, 1966- editor.

Daems, Jim, 1966- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Series:

Cultures of play, 1300-1700

Cultures of play, 1300-1700 ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--Early modern.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

206 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]

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.

Contents:

The Interplay of Games and War in Early Modern English Literature: An Introduction / Jim Daems and Holly Faith Nelson

'Can this cock-pit hold the vasty fields of france? Cock-Fighting and the Representation of War in Shakespeare's Henry V / Louise Fang

Game Over: Play and ar in shakespeare's Trolius and Cressida / Sean Lawrence

Thomas Morton's Maypole Revels, War Games, and Transatlantic Conflict / Jim Daems

Milton's Epic Games: War and Recreation in Paradise Lost / David Currell

Ciphers and Gaming for Pleasure and War / Katherine Ellison

Virtual Reality, Role Play, and World-Building in Margaret Cavendish's Literary War Games / Holly Faith Nelson and Sharon Alker

Dice, Jesting, and the 'Pleasing Delusion' of Warlike Love in Aphra Behn's The Luckey Chance / Karol Cooper

War and Games in Swift's Battle of the Books and Gulliver's Travels / Lori A. Davis Perry

Time-Servers, Turncoats and the Hostile Reprrrrrint: Considering the Conflict of a Paper Wqar / Jeffrey Galbraith.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9789463728010

9463728015

OCLC:

1103464713

Publisher Number:

99985068270