Game at chess

Folger bibliographic ID: 128835
Folger call number: FILM Fo. 12.8
Folger holdings ID: 259491

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

General notes

Poems and epilogue listed in the Folger card index of first lines Title from title page Known as the "Rosenbach" manuscript Portions also available as a digital reproduction Also available on microfilm Purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach in September 1941

Publications

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

Exhibited

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

Uniform title: Game at chess
Extended title: A game at chess as it was acted nine dayes together, compos'de by Tho. Middleton. ca. 1624

author: Middleton, Thomas, -1627