A game at chess [manuscript], 1624 August 13.

Game at chess.

93 p. ; 165 x 127 mm

Copy dated one day before last performance on August 14, 1624 before Middleton's play was banned. Scribal copy in the hand of Ralph Crane lacking portions of the text. Correction in Middleton's hand (p. 32), as well as corrections in other hands, probably made by later owners.

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

For another version of the play, see Folger MS V.a.342.
Other manuscripts of this play are held at Trinity College Cambridge (MS O.2.66), Huntington Library (MS EL 34.B.17), British Library (Landsdowne 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.

Mervyn Archdall MS.
Formerly Folger MS 7043.

Purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach in January 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.

Great Britain -- England.

V.a.231

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