Historicism, presentism and time: Middleton's "The Spanish Gypsy" and "A Game at Chess "

Abstract

"Middleton’s last two surviving plays, The Spanish Gypsy (1623) and A Game at Chess (1624), seem to belong to different universes, aesthetically and politically, discouraging any notion of Middleton’s “late style” or “late period.” One was written before, one after, the failure of negotiations for a dynastic marriage that would have united Habsburg and Stuart interests. Analysis and comparison of the two plays challenges the theoretical assumptions about “the temporal constant” in the work both of New Historicist and of Presentist critics."

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