{"product_id":"9781442648647-lector-ludens","title":"'Lector Ludens'","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Representation of Games \u0026amp; Play in Cervantes\u003cbr\u003eMichael Scham uses Cervantes's Don Quijote and Novelas ejemplares as the basis for a wide-ranging exploration of early modern Spanish views on recreations ranging from cards and dice to hunting, attending the theater, and reading fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, debating the acceptability of games and recreation was serious business. With \u003cem\u003eLector Ludens\u003c\/em\u003e, Michael Scham uses Cervantes’s \u003cem\u003eDon Quijote\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNovelas ejemplares\u003c\/em\u003e as the basis for a wide-ranging exploration of early modern Spanish views on recreations ranging from cards and dice to hunting, attending the theater, and reading fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShifting fluidly between modern theories of play, little-known Spanish treatises on leisure and games, and the evidence in Cervantes’s own works, Scham illuminates Cervantes’s intense fascination with games, play, and leisure, as well as the tensions in early modern Spain between the stern moralizing of the Counter-Reformation and the playfulness of Renaissance humanism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943904620641,"sku":"9781442648647","price":67.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_35584030_340f4d4b-9021-4c42-b336-8a6603588a4e.jpg?v=1754517063","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781442648647-lector-ludens","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}