title: A Game at Chess
title_page_title: [engraved title page; A2r] A Game at Chæss
title_page_performance: as it was Acted <i>nine days to gether at the  Globe on the banks side</i>[.]
paratext_other_paratexts: "The Picture plainly explained, after the manner of the Chesse-play" (verses) [A1v]
stationer_entries_in_register: Mar 15, 1655: Transferred from Martha Harrison, the widow of John Harrison (4), to John Stafford (1) and William Gilbertson: "The Game att Chesse." [It is very unlikely that this entry refers to this play.]
stationer_additional_notes: For the printer of this edition, see Gary Taylor, "A Game At Chess: General Textual Introduction," in <i>Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture</i>, 717-18.
transcript_modern_spelling: A game at chess as it was acted nine days together at the globe on the bankside