The Game and Playe of Chesse is a book by William Caxton, the first English printer. Published in the 1470s, it is one of the earliest titles published in English, the first being Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, also by Caxton. It was based on a book by Jacobus de Cessolis. The book is an "allegory of fixed social structures where each rank has its allotted role."
See also
Further reading
- Wilson, Robert H. "Caxton's Chess Book" (subscription required). Modern Language Notes 62 (2): 93–102. February 1947. Hosted by JSTOR.
References
- Wills, Matthew. "The First English Books"
- Knowles, Christine. "Caxton and His Two French Sources: The 'Game and Playe of the Chesse' and the Composite Manuscripts of the Two French Translations of the 'Ludus Scaccorum'" (subscription required). Modern Language Review 49 (4): 417–423. October 1954. Hosted by JSTOR.
- "Caxton's Chaucer".
External links
- The Game and Playe of the Chesse, ed. Jenny Adams (2009)
- The Game and Playe of Chesse, first edition
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