A game at chess [manuscript] : as it was acted nine dayes together, ca. 1624 / compos'de by Tho. Middleton.

Game at chess.

77 p. ; 187 x 143 mm

Contains the longest and most complete version of banned play by Middleton. Scribal copy, in two unknown hands, overseen by Middleton. Title page in Middleton's autograph.

Poems and epilogue listed in the Folger card index of first lines.
Title from title page.
Known as the "Rosenbach" manuscript.

For another version of the play, see Folger MS V.a.231.
Other manuscripts of this play are held at Trinity College Cambridge (MS O.2.66), Huntington Library (MS EL 34.B.17), British Library (Lansdowne MS 690) and the Bodleian Library (Malone MS 525).

Ioppolo, Grace. Dramatists and their manuscripts in the age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood. London and New York: Routledge, 2006, p. 169-174.
"The pen's excellencie" : treasures from the manuscript collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library / compiled and edited by Heather Wolfe. Seattle : Distributed by University of Washington Press, 2002, p. 90-93.

Purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach in September 1941.

Exhibited: "The Pen's Excellencie" : Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library, curated by Heather Wolfe, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., February 6- June 8, 2002.

Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library V.a.342
Bindings collection image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library V.a.342

Great Britain -- England.

V.a.342

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