Games and War in Early Modern English Literature: From Shakespeare to Swift

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Games and War in Early Modern English Literature

From Shakespeare to Swift

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Edited by James William Daems, Holly Faith Nelson

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: November 2020
Print publication year:: 2019
Online ISBN:: 9789048544837
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048544837

Subjects:: Regional and World History: General Interest, History

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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.

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Games and War in Early Modern English Literature

From Shakespeare to Swift

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Dedication
pp 5-6

Contents
pp 7-8

Acknowledgements
pp 9-10

The Interplay of Games and War in Early Modern English Literature: An Introduction
pp 11-22

1 - ‘Can this cock-pit hold the vasty fields of France?’ Cock-Fighting and the Representation of War in Shakespeare’s Henry V
pp 23-38

2 - Game Over: Play and War in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida
pp 39-54

3 - Thomas Morton’s Maypole: Revels, War Games, and Transatlantic Conflict
pp 55-72

4 - Milton’s Epic Games: War and Recreation in Paradise Lost
pp 73-94

5 - Ciphers and Gaming for Pleasure and War
pp 95-116

6 - Virtual Reality, Role Play, and World-Building in Margaret Cavendish’s Literary War Games
pp 117-138

7 - Dice, Jesting, and the ‘Pleasing Delusion’ of Warlike Love in Aphra Behn’s The Luckey Chance
pp 139-160

8 - War and Games in Swift’s Battle of the Books and Gulliver’s Travels
pp 161-178

9 - Time-Servers, Turncoats, and the Hostile Reprint: Considering the Conflict of a Paper War
pp 179-200

Index
pp 201-206

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