DOCSLIB.ORG

English Sports and Recreations

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
English Sports and Recreations FOLGER BOOKLETS & ON TUDOR AND STUART CIVILI&AT ION ENG LI S H S PO R T S AND R ECR EAT I O N S Li tone By lly C. S P & B LI SHED FOR THE FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRAR& Corn ll e & niv ersity Press FO LGER BOOKLETS ON T& DOR AND ST& ART CIVI LI&ATI ON THE FOl er S b o D C g hakespeare Li rary Of Washingt n , , a research institution founded by Henry Clay FOlger and dm d b the u of Am C o a inistere y Tr stees herst llege , has an d c c n of boo m m u c extraor inary olle tio ks , pa phlets , an s ripts , and other m aterials useful for the study of Western civiliza b 1715 A hou m u o tion from a out 1485 to . lt gh its pri ary p rp se to d c d c o and u is encourage a van e resear h in hist ry literat re , the FOlger Library als o recogniz es an obligation to the non specialist who wants to kn ow m ore about the civiliz ation of the Tudor and Stuart periods when the E nglish - spe aking people were beginning their first expansion overseas and oud o of m b d were laying the f n ati ns new real s a roa . This booklet is one Of a series planned by the Folger Library to des cribe various aspe cts of the cultural history Of the six teenth and c f b seventeenth enturies . Titles o other ooklets b o c d oo ub h d E ch of will e ann un e as s n as they are p lis e . a the pamphlets will be illustrated from contemp orary docu m c d ents . Tea hers esiring copies of the illustrative phot o graphs for use in preparing closed - circuit television pro grams or other visual aids for their classes s h ould write to b for m co the Folger Li rary an esti ate Of the st . O & I S B R I GH T D ire c or . t L W , TH E F OL GER SH AK ESP EAR E L I B RAR& I S AD M I N I ST ERED B & T H E T & ST S OF A M H ST C L L G R EE ER O E E . C o v e r illus r t a tio n: A ha ar d falco n and e ui m e nt fo r h kin ro g g q p aw g . F m S imon Lath am L a tha ms F alco nr , y ( 16 14 ) ENGLI SH“ S PO R T S AND R ECR EAT IONS Stone P & B L I SHED F O R THE FOLGER SHAKE SPEARE LIBRAR& Cornell & niv ersity Press I TH A CA N E W & O K , R CORNELL & NIVERSIT& PRESS Firs t publis hed 1 960 Second printing 1 964 ’ ALTHO UGH sports and pastimes in Shakespeare s age were are far less highly organized than they today , human nature was E i much the same , and nglishmen enjoyed many Of the act vities To that still have a place in their recreations . have an under of standing the social life and customs Of a nation , a knowledge Of its recreations is essential . The way a people spend their moments Of leisure provides a clue to their personalities and qualities Of character . During the years when the Tudors and early Stuarts gov E o r f erned ngland , roads were po r , t avel was di ficult and some not o times dangerous , and ordinary folk usually did g far & & be for yond their parish limits pleasure . Furthermore , life was hard for . for the ordinary citizen , and few had time much leisure for or Consequently, both time and Opportunity were lacking ganiz ed sports that could attract widespread attendance like a m r TO k modern football atch o modern horse racing . wor ing m en and apprentices many sports were forbidden by statute on except such specified holidays as Christmas , but the laws were not always rigidly enforced . Despite difficulties and handicaps , however , people Of all classes enjoyed a variety of simple sports and amusements . If E to the lizabethans had work long hours at hard tasks , they for nevertheless found time play and gaiety . Fairs , festivals , and church wakes provided Opportunities to villagers for many E to amusements . veryone could look forward the local fair , at which vendors Of a variety of wares spread out their goods for 0 sale . T the fairs came gleemen , jugglers , tumblers , acrobats , : and animal trainers with their beasts a dancing bear , monkeys , “ ” T an exotic camel , and an educated horse . raveling showmen “ also brought freaks , as in the sideshow at carnivals today, and - - A sleight of hand artists were common . fter the buying and sell in g were over , visitors to the fair , adults and children alike , i for joined in the activities . Women m ght dance a prize , and the e t men engaged in foot races , bowling matches , wr s ling , and m e . One of other similar co p titions the most curious events , at which stout young men sought to show their worth and endur of . B ance , was the sport shin kicking efore this event the par ticipants rubbed both their boots and shins with blue vitriol to At harden them . the close of the day many a young countryman must have been sore and sorry . of Festivals celebrated special occasions , such as the end the i i harvest , sheepshearing , and the beg nn ng of spring . Church ’ wakes were held on a saint s day or the day of dedication of the A church . wake began with the vigil at the church and a service; of then followed feasting, drinking , and contests skill and strength like those at fairs . Originally these celebrations were held in the churchyard , but as the activities became more and more secular the churchyard was abandoned or forbidden . M any of the festivals stemmed from pagan rites , and the church thought to rem ove the taint of heathenism somewhat by n ack owledging and modifying them . With the rise of the Puri tans , however , Objections grew louder , especially to such On celebrations as church ales . these occasions the church e of m wardens provid d a quantity malt , so e from the church stock and the rest from parishioners . The malt was brewed into o beer and ale and then sold t raise money for the church . This Stubb es who practice was condemned vociferously by Philip , complained in his Ana tomy of Abus es ( 1583 ) of a situation in which profit to the church increased in proportion to the con m su ption of beer and the drunkenness that followed . Pious Philip Stubb es also spoke out against the revelry that on M a . On or took place y Day the eve Of this holiday, in the m Of d a early orning hours the y itself, people were accustomed to go into the forests to gather boughs and branches as decora m A M tions for their ho es . ayp ole would be cut and drawn into i E t the v llage by oxen . ach ox had flowers tied o its horns and 1 on M a w M M y Day ith a fiddler , aid arian , and ten M M ed with horns and bells . aid arian was queen Of the e R mistress of the archery games . In lat r years obin t of M a . was in roduced , probably as king the y Upon such Stubb es e frown d , but he deplored most the fact that the “ to men and girls run gadding over night the woods , ” “ the hills , and mountains and there spend night in “ ” o one won times . He declared n good authority ( own ) that Of a hundred maids going out scarcely a ned in the state Of virginity . occupied an important place in the M ay - Day activ i the was virtually national sport . Laws discouraged ical exercises s o that men would not be diverted from From the time o f Edward III when the f longbow was e fectively demonstrated , it was thought wise to have all the men of England ready as trained archers in case of war . By the beginning of the seventeenth cen A B . s R tury the usefulness Of archery in war was declining . arret “ says in The The ory and Practice of M odern Wars ( 1598 ) they to to no [ archers &may serve some sorts Of service , but such ” Vi of effect as any Of the fiery weapons , but the ctories the long b ow at Créc A y , Poitiers , and gincourt were not quickly forgot to own to ten , and every man was expected a longbow and to in practice regularly . Shooting contests were held stimulate ’ tere st , and even churchwardens accounts sometimes include f B t of or . expenses making archery butts ut s were mounds earth , A banked with turf . gainst this mound was placed a white disk t for a target . Shooting at these taught accuracy . To learn o “ “ ” “ ” or keep a length the archers practiced prick clout shooting , which meant shooting at a target eighteen inches in diameter , ff 160 stu ed with straw . This mark was placed at a distance Of “ ” to 240 R to no yards .
Load more

Recommended publications
  • WILLIAM Shakespeare
    WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE _____ A L’ANGLETERRE Je lui dédie ce livre, glorification de son poëte. Je dis à l’Angleterre la vérité; mais, comme terre illustre et libre, je l’admire, et comme asile, je l’aime. VICTOR HUGO. Hauteville-House, 1864. Le vrai titre de cet ouvrage serait : A propos de Shakespeare. Le désir d’introduire, comme on dit en Angleterre, devant le public, la nouvelle traduction de Shakespeare, a été le premier mobile de l’auteur. Le sentiment qui l’intéresse si profondément au traducteur ne saurait lui ôter le droit de recommander la traduction. Cependant sa conscience a été sollicitée d’autre part, et d’une façon plus étroite encore, par le sujet lui-même. A l’occasion de Shakespeare, toutes les questions qui touchent à l’art se sont présentées à son esprit. Traiter ces questions, c’est expliquer la mission de l’art; traiter ces questions, c’est expliquer le devoir de la pensée humaine envers l’homme. Une telle occasion de dire des vérités s’impose, et il n’est pas permis, surtout à une époque comme la nôtre, de l’éluder. L’auteur l’a compris. Il n’a point hésité à aborder ces questions complexes de l’art et de la civilisation sous leurs faces diverses, multipliant les horizons toutes les fois que la perspective se déplaçait, et acceptant toutes les indications que le sujet, dans sa nécessité rigoureuse, lui offrait. De cet agrandissement du point de vue est né ce livre. Hauteville-House, 1864. PREMIÈRE PARTIE LIVRE I SHAKESPEARE — SA VIE I Il y a une douzaine d’années, dans une île voisine des côtes de France, une maison, d’aspect mélancolique en toute saison, devenait particulièrement sombre à cause de l’hiver qui commençait.
    [Show full text]
  • The Gaming Table, Its Votaries and Victims Volume #2
    The Gaming Table, Its Votaries and Victims Volume #2 Andrew Steinmetz ******The Project Gutenberg Etext of Andrew Steinmetz's******** *********The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims*********** Volume #2 #2 in our series by Andrew Steinmetz Copyright laws are changing all over the world, be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before posting these files!! Please take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. **Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts** **Etexts Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971** *These Etexts Prepared By Hundreds of Volunteers and Donations* Information on contacting Project Gutenberg to get Etexts, and further information is included below. We need your donations. The Gaming Table, Its Votaries and Victims Volume #2 by Andrew Steinmetz May, 1996 [Etext #531] ******The Project Gutenberg Etext of Andrew Steinmetz's******** *********The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims*********** *****This file should be named tgamt210.txt or tgamt210.zip****** Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER, tgamt211.txt. VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, tgamt210a.txt We are now trying to release all our books one month in advance of the official release dates, for time for better editing. Please note: neither this list nor its contents are final till midnight of the last day of the month of any such announcement. The official release date of all Project Gutenberg Etexts is at Midnight, Central Time, of the last day of the stated month.
    [Show full text]
  • Casino Gambling's Proliferation Throughout the United States: a Case Study of Legal Gaming in Louisiana
    UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations 1-1-1998 Casino gambling's proliferation throughout the United States: A case study of legal gaming in Louisiana Kenneth Edward Burke University of Nevada, Las Vegas Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/rtds Repository Citation Burke, Kenneth Edward, "Casino gambling's proliferation throughout the United States: A case study of legal gaming in Louisiana" (1998). UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations. 866. http://dx.doi.org/10.25669/e2tv-0sf1 This Thesis is protected by copyright and/or related rights. It has been brought to you by Digital Scholarship@UNLV with permission from the rights-holder(s). You are free to use this Thesis in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s) directly, unless additional rights are indicated by a Creative Commons license in the record and/ or on the work itself. This Thesis has been accepted for inclusion in UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Digital Scholarship@UNLV. For more information, please contact [email protected]. INFORMATION TO USERS This manuscript has been reproduced from the microfilm master. UMI films the text directly from the original or copy submitted. Thus, some thesis and dissertation copies are in typewriter Ace, while others may be from aity type o f computer printer. The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. Broken or indistinct print, colored or poor quality illustrations and photographs, print bleedthrough, substandard margins, and improper alignment can adversely affect reproduction.
    [Show full text]
  • The History of Playing Cards
    tv THE HISTORY PLAYING CARDS, WITH guttcimits of ijjtir xtst in CONJURING, FORTUNE-TELLING, AND CARD-SHARPING. Ike. hlsiov. EDITED BT THE LATE Rev. Ed. S. TAYLOR, B.A. AND OTHERS. LONDON : JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN, PICCADILLY. 1865. n/^ /•" TWO CARICATURE CARDS FROM A PACK FORMERLY BELONGING TO THE LATE COUNT d'oRS AY. PREFACE. Five years ago I pin-chased from an eminent French publisher some tasteful wood-engravings, illustrative of the History of Playing Cards. These, with the small work in which they originally appeared, were placed in the hands of the late Rev. Ed. S. Taylor, of Onnesby St. Margaret, Great Yarmouth, as mate rial for a History of Playing Cards, English and Foreign, which he had offered to undertake for me. The readers of Notes and Queries will remember this gen tleman as the valued contributor of many curious articles to that useful periodical. His knowledge was wide and varied, although his tastes were of that peculiar kind which delights in the careful exploration of the bye-ways, rather than the high roads, of learning. The first part of the work was soon in the printers' hands, but ill-health followed, and the book proceeded slowly up to the time of the Editor's decease, two years ago. It was deemed necessary to mention this fact, as some of the references are to matters long since passed, although they are stated as of the present day. IV PREFACE. To tlie French Illustrations have been added several facsimiles of old cards from the Print-room in the British Museum, and other sources.
    [Show full text]
  • Download Scans
    Dr.G.D. ,chotel Het Ntaatschal ?elijk Leven in de XVII' cell-- HET MAATSCHAPPELIJK LEVEN ONZER VADEREN IN DE ZEVENTIENDE EEUW. I=1 ,24 0 0 z 0 fra HET MAATSCHAPPELIJK LEVEN ONZER VADEREN IN DE ZEVE\TIE\DE EEUW BESCHREVEN DOOR DR. G. D. J. SCHOTEL Tweede, verbeterde en geillustreerde Uitgave DOOR DH. H. C. ROGGE Oud-l-lougleeraar aan de Universiteit to Amsterdam A. W. SIJTHOFF LEIDEN VOORREDE. Toen Dr. Schott' de pen opnam, um op zumi besehrilving van het Oud-Hollandseh Hoisgezin in de Zeventiende Eeuw ook die van het Maatschappelijk Leven in zijn geheelen omvang to laten volgen, stelde hij zich voor, uit den grooten schat zijner aanteekeningen, bileengebracht bij het doorlezen van de belangrijkste historisehe werken en andere geschriften nit chen tijd, van ontelbare predi- kaben, ]iedeboekjes, tooneel- en kluchtspelen, van tamiliepapieren en andere handschriftelijke bescheiden, een boek saam to stellen over het maatsehappelnk en godsdienstig level] Dozer vaderen, op zoo breede solo-Lai aangelegd, dot het missiluen wel zes of meer deelen zoo vullen. Tegen (1,3 intgave van zulk eon omvangrijk work. waarvoor in die dagen slechts eon beperkt aantal lezers was to vmden, rezen echter gewiehtige bedenkingen. De aantrekkelijkheid zoo door of beeldingen floor oorspronkelijke voorstellingen kunnen verhoogd worden, maar Your zulk eerie veilueliting op min kost- bore wiize ontbraken nog de hulpmiddelen. noel al tiniest de sehruver zieh beperken, tech heeft Inj gotraeht de voiehten van timing onderzoek voor de vergetelheid to bewaren; vandaar dot zip' IVIoatsehappelijk Leven meer of min tutgebreide monograpIneen bevat, die men Kier oogensehijnlijk met zoeken zou.
    [Show full text]
  • In Brief Richard Sets Bike Record Circlin
    . a_._-:.- P?gei6CRANP0BD (N.J.) CHRONICLE Thursday, January'1. "1982 Smoke detector Three Eagl$ scoytsjn in Garwood... tw& TKeniTworth.;-. Board, police/menrpromotecf\'7. • teachers still at school tax going _ loggerheads... new police: rank... page 14 • . - ;-.,.«,-. • '.. - ' USPS 136 BOO Second Class Postage Paid Cranford, N.J. 25 CENTS VOL. 90 No. 2 Published Every Thursday Thursday, January 14,1982 Serving Cntriford, Kenilworih arid "(i'krwood ? Richard sets bike record circlin If this were an ordinary week, we would use this space to tell you what's Special help too. , •'.'". ~"- r in brief at Kings. But this week, well simply _ay that we're having our exceptional Florida The Proctor and Gamble couipany is mailing thousands of coupons to be used iri 1 ;__ By R0SALI&_E0SS— — rinstead. _He was a cross country skier, and spent just $2d to $25 a night. The trip .Richard DeBernardis decided it was mountain climber and in 1976 had biked cost him $4,500. He had expected to Citrus satefarid we'll leave the jorrof telling yoilaBourTh^ other speciars t^hT the jDurchjisejj^^ tim6 for another a_ventute. "1 wanted 2,216 miles from Alaska to< Mexico in 40 spend $6,000. "For every coupon redeemed, P&G will donate a nickel. With the help of Kings to get~b_ck on the bike and do something days. He-left the university and embark- , Richard- rode a 12-speed Japanese else." ., \- •• ,J .. Because this is no ordinary weekat Kings shoppersrit can add up to an important contribution. ^ AndBOthree-yeai'sto the day that he reatils for $1,000, but was given to him : ' r.
    [Show full text]
  • The Elizabethan Court Day by Day--1595
    1595 1595 At GREENWICH PALACE, Kent. Jan 1,Wed New Year gifts. New Year Gift roll is not extant, but William Dethick, Garter King of Arms, gave the Queen: ‘The Progeny of the Monarchs of the Englishmen, containing the Titles and Reigns of them’. Also Jan 1: play, by Admiral’s Men.T Jan 1: Earl of Essex’s accounts: ‘To your Lordship to play at cards with the Lord Sheffield on New Year’s day at night in the Presence, your Lordship giving him odds at Noddy, £20’. [A card-game like cribbage]. [Bath, v.261]. John Harington (1560-1612) wrote an epigram in verse ‘Of the games in the court that have been in request’: ‘The first game was the best’: Primero. Post and pair; Maw; Tres Cozes; Lodam; Noddy. [Kilroy: IV:99]. c.January: marriage: Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland (1564-1632), married Lady Perrot, at Essex House, Strand. She was Dorothy (Devereux), widow of Sir Thomas Perrot (died February 1594); sister of Robert Devereux Earl of Essex, who paid, c.January 1595: ‘To the Players at Essex House at the marriage of the Earl of Northumberland, £10’. [Bath, v.261]. The Queen was godmother to two of the Earl of Northumberland’s sons (July 1596, October 1602). Jan 3: Stationers entered poems by Francis Sabie, published as: ‘Pan’s Pipe, three pastoral eclogues, in English hexameter. With other poetical verses delightful’. Sabie includes an Ode describing the contention of Juno, Venus, and Minerva, not for the apple of beauty, but for possession of Eliza. Jove declares: ‘This is my judgment: sweet Eliza, ladies, shall be mine only’.
    [Show full text]
  • The Role of Lipid Mediators in the Aetiology of Endometriosis
    The role of lipid mediators in the aetiology of endometriosis A thesis submitted to the University of Manchester for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health 2018 Orsolya Kiss School of Health Science Division of Pharmacy and Optometry LIST OF CONTENTS LIST OF CONTENTS ........................................................................................................................ 2 LIST OF FIGURES .................................................................................................................... 5 LIST OF TABLES .................................................................................................................... 10 FREQUENTLY USED ABBREVIATIONS .................................................................................. 12 ABSTRACT ............................................................................................................................ 15 DECLARATION ..................................................................................................................... 17 Acknowledgement .............................................................................................................. 19 CHAPTER: Introduction and Literature Review .................................................................. 19 Overview of Endometriosis ......................................................................................... 20 Pathophysiology .........................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims
    THE GAMING TABLE: ITS VOTARIES AND VICTIMS, In all Times and Countries, especially in England and in France. BY ANDREW STEINMETZ, ESQ., OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW; FIRST-CLASS EXTRA CERTIFICATE SCHOOL OF MUSKETRY, HYTHE; late OFFICER INSTRUCTOR MUSKETRY, THE QUEENS OWN LIGHT INFANTRY MILITIA. AUTHOR OF 'THE HISTORY OF THE JESUITS,' 'JAPAN AND HER PEOPLE,' 'THE ROMANCE OF DUELLING,' &c., &c. 'The sharp, the blackleg, and the knowing one, Livery or lace, the self-same circle, run; The same the passion, end and means the same-- Dick and his Lordship differ but in name.' IN TWO VOLUMES.--VOL. II. CONTENTS OF VOL. II. I. CHEVALIERS D'INDUSTRIE, OR POLITE SHARPERS II. PROFESSIONAL GAMESTERS AND THEIR FRAUDS III. ANECDOTES OF THE PASSIONS AND VICISSITUDES OF GAMESTERS IV. ACTROCITIES, DUELS. SUICIDES, AND EXECUTION OF GAMBLERS V. ODDITIES AND WITTICISMS OF GAMBLERS VI. THE GAMING CLUBS VII. DOINGS IN GAMING HOUSES VIII. THE DOCTRINE OF PROBABILITIES APPLIED TO GAMBLING IX. THE HISTORY OF DICE AND CARDS X. PIQUET, BASSET, FARO, HAZARD, PASSE-DIX, PUT, CROSS AND PILE, THIMBLE-RIG XI. COCK-FIGHTING XII. THE TURF, HISTORICAL, SOCIAL, MORAL XIII. FORTUNE-TELLING BY CARDS (FOR LADIES) XIV. AMUSING CARD TRICKS THE GAMING TABLE. CHAPTER I. CHEVALIERS D'INDUSTRIE, OR POLITE SHARPERS. Chevaliers d'industrie, or polite and accomplished sharpers, have always existed in every city, from the earliest times to the present. The ordinary progress of these interesting gentlemen is as follows. Their debut is often difficult, and many of them are stopped short in their career. They only succeed by means of great exertion and severe trials; but they endure everything in order to be tolerated or permitted to exercise their calling.
    [Show full text]
  • The World's #1 Poker Manual
    Poker: A Guaranteed Income for Life [ Next Page ] FRANK R. WALLACE THE WORLD'S #1 POKER MANUAL With nearly $2,000,000 worth of previous editions sold, Frank R. Wallace's POKER, A GUARANTEED INCOME FOR LIFE by using the ADVANCED CONCEPTS OF POKER is the best, the biggest, the most money-generating book about poker ever written. This 100,000-word manual gives you the 120 Advanced Concepts of Poker and shows you step-by- step how to apply these concepts to any level of action. http://www.neo-tech.com/poker/ (1 of 3)9/17/2004 12:12:10 PM Poker: A Guaranteed Income for Life Here are the topics of just twelve of the 120 money-winning Advanced Concepts: ● How to be an honest player who cannot lose at poker. ● How to increase your advantage so greatly that you can break most games at will. ● How to prevent games from breaking up. ● How to extract maximum money from all opponents. ● How to keep losers in the game. ● How to make winners quit. ● How to see unexposed cards without cheating. ● How to beat dishonest players and cheaters. ● How to lie and practice deceit. (Only in poker can you do that and remain a gentleman.) ● How to control the rules. ● How to jack up stakes. ● How to produce sloppy and careless attitudes in opponents. ● How to make good players disintegrate into poor players. http://www.neo-tech.com/poker/ (2 of 3)9/17/2004 12:12:10 PM Poker: A Guaranteed Income for Life ● How to manipulate opponents through distraction and hypnosis.
    [Show full text]
  • 1 Theatre and the Card-Playing Scene in Thomas Heywood's a Woman
    Theatre and the Card-Playing Scene in Thomas Heywood’s A Woman Killed With Kindness Louise Fang Université de Paris Sorbonne [email protected] At the beginning of the seventeenth century, card-playing scenes had already been established as a long-standing topos of the visual arts. Ever since the late Middle Ages painters and engravers had chosen this particular motif to represent an ideal of sociability, scenes of seduction, or one of the many objects symbolizing the vanity of human life, as we can see from representations of the Bonfire of the Vanities. Fig.1 Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet, The Cardplayers, 1485, Fig.2 Anon., Saint John Capistrano Exhorts his print, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Adherents to Burn Cards and Gaming Boards in the Cathedral Square of Bamburg, 1470-74, oil on panel, Historisches Museum, Bamberg. 1 These gaming scenes allowed painters to explore many different aspects of their art such as the use of light in Caravaggesque paintings for instance, or the art of portraiture. They foregrounded the quality of the medium on which they represented. At the same time, scenes depicting parlour or tavern games were developing into ‘a noteworthy dramatic convention’ on the English early modern stage according to Joseph T. McCullen who has listed all the gaming scenes found in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama.1 Perhaps unsurprisingly, such scenes denoting the daily life of early modern domesticity can be found in domestic tragedies. Thomas Heywood’s A Woman Killed with Kindness is one of the most compelling examples of this emerging dramatic topos as the playwright chose to represent almost an entire card game to stage Frankford’s sudden realisation of his wife’s adultery.
    [Show full text]
  • Onspringfield Ave, Zone
    , VOL. 82NO. 25 Published Every Thursday Thursday, June"26,. 1975 Second Class Postal' I'aid Cranfor-d N.I 07IIH; I.VCFNTS - to ease stalemate onSpringfield Ave, zone Efforts are .continuing to Corridor, - a Bicentennial Committee as to whether the 1 buildings on the cast ,side of the area, .then has been no 1 effect a compromise with Dr. project extending along the townhnuse /.oiling as tndicatwh thai kiause wilj' Springl leld Ave between Frdnk Krause over the re- "west I vi nk of the Railway recommended by the Plan accept the' lownhouse' \orlh 1,'nion Ave and the zoning_Qf_30-Springfield Ave., River.from Ihe Springfield uing Board anil contained, in. r.ezoning. H14 attorney, t Mango Ave bridge, and there although negotiations last Ave bridge at Orange Ave the pending ordinance should Fdw.ud .1 lloh.hio, h;is is strong sentiment lor at- week appeared to reach a totheVVilliams-Droescher Mill Ul approved maintained before tho' coin tempting' to acquire the stalemate. in Lincoln Ave. K.^qre in- The (jueslion of whether the miltce that the proposed town properly from No .in to the Mayor Burton S. Goodman volved in the considerations courts ,will approve anything house rivoning.docs nut meet ri-ver crossing for use in the said he is "continuing his at- state's (ireen Acres program Split on ordinance less I hail an apartment VoiVe the rei'inremcnts of the court tempt to avoid continued as requested by Krause in (us The . committee is However, the court order to litigation over the property, There is reportedly a dif- suit is being considered Masai unanimous in its opjvisilioiv to re/one stands m the way of which the township has been ference of opinion among .
    [Show full text]