ID - 78716205 TI - Games and war in early modern English literature : from Shakespeare to Swift AU - Nelson, Holly Faith AU - Daems, Jim PY - 2019 SN - 9048544831 9789048544837 9789463728010 9463728015 PB - Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - Games in literature. KW - War in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - Cultural history of play. KW - Gender and games. KW - History of wargames. KW - Paper wars. KW - Playing war. KW - War and games. KW - War and play. KW - Warfare in literature. KW - Thematology KW - anno 1500-1799 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78716205 AB - 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. ER -