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
Notes
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
Also known as
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
Related names
author: Middleton, Thomas, -1627
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