"a Sceane of Uttmost Vanity": the Spectacle of Gambling in Late Stuart Culture.
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- James E. Evans, Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
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Abstract: Restoration diarist John Evelyn describes a memorable occasion at
court on Twelfth Night, 6 January 1662:
This evening (according to costóme) his Majestie opned the Réveils of
that night, by throwing the Dice himselfe, in the Privy Chamber, where
was a table set on purpose, & lost his 100 pounds: the yeare before he
won 150 pounds: The Ladys also plaied very deepe: I came away
when the Duke of Ormond had won about 1000 pounds & left them
still at passage, Cards &c: at other Tables, both there and at the
Groome-porters, observing the wiccked folly vanity & monstrous
excesse of Passion amongst some loosers, & sorry I am that such a
wretched Custome as play to that excesse should be countenanc'd in a
Court, which ought to be an example of Virtue to the rest of the
kingdome.1
"a Sceane of Uttmost Vanity": the Spectacle of Gambling in Late Stuart Culture.
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- Publication
- Language: English
- Date: 2002
- Keywords
- gambling, spectacle, late stuart culture, literature, theatre, England, 1600s