Resumen de ‘THAT GAM ME THOGHT WAS GOOD!’: Structuring Games into Medieval English Plays
It is well known to medieval theatre scholars that the medieval word game was used, in one of its senses, somewhat interchangeably with the medieval term play.¹ There is considerable evidence of the interchangeability of these terms in the prologues and epilogues of plays, where the terms of reference for the presentation are established and reinforced.² Additionally, in the synonymous relationship between game and play there are many references to ‘game players’, ‘game places’, and ‘game books’.³ However, even though some (theatrical) plays are recorded as games, the word game predominantly, both in the Middle Ages and today, possesses non-theatrical...
