An english tradition? : the history and significance of fair play / Jonathan Duke-Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duke-Evans, Jonathan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social ethics--History.

Social ethics.

Sportsmanship.

Great Britain--Moral conditions--History.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (365 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

The history of fair play in Britain from earliest times to the present, asking whether it is in fact a British, or alternatively an English, characteristic at all - and if so, whether fair play still matters today?.

Contents:

Intro

Halftitle page

Title page

Copyright page

Preface

Contents

List of Illustrations

Figure

Plates

1. Introduction: The problem of fair play

2. What do we mean when we talk about fair play?

Fair play as not cheating

Fair play as respecting people's entitlements

Fair play as courtesy in sport

Fair play as a sporting chance

Fair play as sympathy for the underdog

Fair play as refusal to sneak

The core meaning

Fair play and the sense of equality

Fair play in political theory

Fair play as a discourse

3. Fair play-the history of a phrase

"Fair" and "play" in Early and Middle English

The first appearance of "fair play"

The ambiguity of "fair play"

"Fair play" in early modern English: the 16th century

The 17th century

The 18th century

The 19th century

Some analogues of "fair play"

Estimating levels of usage of "fair play"

4. Classical perspectives

5. Christianity and chivalry

The "ideal type"

The biblical tradition

The saint and the knight

Beowulf: killing monsters fairly

The origins of chivalry

Fair play in the literature of chivalry: Chrétien to Malory

Chivalry in real life: the tournament

The survival of chivalry: Spenser and Sidney

Shakespeare, chivalry, and fair play

Chivalry in literature: a declining tradition

Sir Walter Scott and the revival of chivalry

6. Fair play in pre-industrial Britain: Law, politics, religion, and class

Fair play takes root

English social structure and fair play

Fair play in the common law

The English political system and fair play

The Church and fair play

Some conclusions

7. Fair play-the popular strand

Fair play outside the elite

Street-fighting men

The cult of the outlaw

Conclusion

8. The rise of the gentleman

The gentleman

Fox-hunting.

Horse-racing

Duelling

9. The realm beyond England

10. The great appropriation

Popular sport in pre-industrial England

Cricket

Boxing

The many faces of football

Tennis and golf

Why England?

11. The expanding circle

The humanitarian revolution

Fair play for working people

Fair play and the reform of Parliament

The position of women

The consequences of empire

Fair play, slavery, and abolition

Fair play and the British Empire

12. The wider world

13. Fair play in the 20th century and beyond

Frequency of use

Changing meanings

Fair play in the age of the world wars, 1900-1950

From Attlee to Blair: fair play 1951-2000

Fair play after the millennium

Fair play in practice

14. Conclusion: Fair play and the British

Appendix 1: Quantifying the use of "fair play"

1. Digital collections of published works

2. Databases on the frequency of use of words and phrases

3. Digital collections of periodicals

4. Concordances

Appendix 2: Fair play quotients for teams playing fifteen or more matches at World Cup finals, 1930 to 2018

Endnotes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Appendix 1

Bibliography

Index

Plates.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Duke-Evans, Jonathan An English Tradition?

ISBN:

0-19-195329-6

0-19-267629-6

0-19-267628-8