List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: A Passion for Games Robin O'Bryan Part One: Chess and Luxury Playing Cards 1 "Mad Chess" with a Mad Dwarf Jester Robin O'Bryan 2 Changing Hands: Jean Desmarets, Stefano della Bella, and the Jeux des Cartes Naomi Lebens Part Two: Gambling and Games of Chance 3 "A game played home": the Gendered Stakes of Gambling in Shakespeare's Plays Megan Herrold 4 "Now if the devil have bones, These dice are made of his": Dice-games on the English Stage in the Seventeenth Century Kevin Chovanec 5 The World Upside Down: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli's Games and the Performance of Identity in the Early Modern World Patricia Rocco Part Three: Outdoor and Sportive Games 6 "To catch the fellow, and come back again": Games of Prisoner's Base in Early Modern English Drama Bethany Packard 7 Against Opposition (at Home): Middleton and Rowley's The World Tossed at Tennis as Tennis Mark Kaethler Part Four: Games on Display 8 Ordering the World: Games in the Architectural Iconography of Stirling Castle, Scotland Giovanna Guidicini 9 The Games of Philipp Hainhofer: Ludic Appreciation and Use in Early Modern Art Cabinets Greger Sundin Bibliography Index