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In:Auctor Ludens: Essays on Play in Literature
Edited by Gerald Guinness and Andrew Hurley
[Cultura Ludens 2] 1986
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 1 January 1986
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Table of contents

Prefacevii
Pre-Lude
From Spells to Spills1
Superliminal Note9
Part I: Authors at Play
1. Playing with the Audience
To “Make” an Audience, or a Night's Dalliance15
Brecht and the Scientific Spirit of Playfulness25
2. Playing with the Canon
Hagiographic (Dis)play: Chaucer's “The Miller's Tale,”37
Playing with Fire and Brimstone: Auctor Ludens, Diabolus Ludicrus47
3. Playing with Authorship
Acts of Willful Play63
The Playful Atoms of Jorge Luis Borges75
Inter-Lude
Play-Translations91
Part II: The Games of Literature
1. Literature as Game of Pleasure
Amorous Agon, Erotic Flyting: Some Play-Motifs in the Literature of Love99
From Play to Plays: The Folklore of Comedy113
Waiting for the Other Shoe: Some Observations on Rhyme127
2. Literature and Role-Playing
Playing for Life in Donne's Elegies and Songs and Sonnets137
The Games of Consciousness in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,”157
3. Literature as Existential Play
Games for Death and Two Maidens171
Godot's Games and Beckett's Late Plays183
Post-Lude191
List of Works Cited195
Note on Contributors199
Index201
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