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

Robin O’Bryan (PhD) is an Art Historian focusing on issues related to popular culture in Italian Renaissance art, especially dwarfs. Her published articles have appeared in journals and anthologies including Games and Game Playing in Early Modern Art and Literature which she also edited for Amsterdam University Press.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: A Passion for Games Robin O'Bryan Part One: Chess and Luxury Playing Cards 1 "Mad Chess" with a Mad Dwarf Jester Robin O'Bryan 2 Changing Hands: Jean Desmarets, Stefano della Bella, and the Jeux des Cartes Naomi Lebens Part Two: Gambling and Games of Chance 3 "A game played home": the Gendered Stakes of Gambling in Shakespeare's Plays Megan Herrold 4 "Now if the devil have bones, These dice are made of his": Dice-games on the English Stage in the Seventeenth Century Kevin Chovanec 5 The World Upside Down: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli's Games and the Performance of Identity in the Early Modern World Patricia Rocco Part Three: Outdoor and Sportive Games 6 "To catch the fellow, and come back again": Games of Prisoner's Base in Early Modern English Drama Bethany Packard 7 Against Opposition (at Home): Middleton and Rowley's The World Tossed at Tennis as Tennis Mark Kaethler Part Four: Games on Display 8 Ordering the World: Games in the Architectural Iconography of Stirling Castle, Scotland Giovanna Guidicini 9 The Games of Philipp Hainhofer: Ludic Appreciation and Use in Early Modern Art Cabinets Greger Sundin Bibliography Index