Contents

pp 5-6

Acknowledgments

pp 7-8

List of Abbreviations

pp 9-10

Introduction

pp 11-38

Part I

pp 39-40

1 - The Player's Game: The Activity of the Player in Early Modern Drama

pp 41-68

2 - “The Madnes of Tenys” and the Commercialization of Pastimes in Early Tudor London

pp 69-88

3 - The Roll of the Dice and the Whims of Fate in Sixteenth-Century Morality Drama

pp 89-114

4 - “The games afoote”: Playing, Preying and Projecting in Richard Brome's The Court Beggar

pp 115-136

Part II

pp 137-138

5 - Playing with Paradoxes in Troilus and Cressida

pp 139-158

6 - Bowling Alone, or The Whole Point of No Return

pp 159-178

7 - Playing (in) the Streets: Games and Adaptation in The Merchant of Venice

pp 179-200

Part III

pp 201-202

8 - The Moods of Gamification in The Tempest

pp 203-228

9 - Videogames and Hamlet: Experiencing Tragic Choice and Consequences

pp 229-254

10 - Shakespeare Videogames, Adaptation/Appropriation , and Collaborative Reception

pp 255-274

11 - Shakespeare, Game, and Play in Digital Pedagogical Shakespeare Games

pp 275-302

Epilogue: Field of Play: Gamifying Early Modern Theatre and Performance Studies

pp 303-316

Index

pp 317-332