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• W2603423741 abstract "Almost as a bet, Susanna Centlivre1 wrote, in same year (1705), two plays dealing with same theme: gambling. The first, The Gamester, was also her first hit and established for her an identity as the Author of The Gamester; following play, The Basset Table, was instead a flop, although its situations and characters were an improved version of previous one.The Gamester was largely derived from Jean Francoise Regnard's Le Joueur (1696), although Centlivre admits it only in part (Part of it I own myself oblig'd to French for, particularly for character of Gamester2); she herself bases on it The Basset Table; either Regnard's or, more probably, Centlivre's work was to prompt Colley Gibber to write, a couple of years later, The Lady's Last Stake (1707). Much later, in 1750, Carlo Goldoni was to write for Venetian Carnival Il Giocatore, which is also indebted to Regnard's play and which met with perhaps even less favor than Centlivre's The Basset Table.3A clear line of continuity and orthodoxy runs through plays directly based on French comedy; apparently distinctive traits-some of characters in Goldoni's play have names taken from commedia dell'arte; in Venice faro (pharaoh) has replaced basset of which it is a simplified form-all but reinforce common topoi of servant's complaining about his master's callous behavior, of fathers'/fathers-in-law's sermons against gambling and of betrothed's selfdelusion about gambler's actual order of priorities. Along this straight line, however, place The Basset Table finds is only apparently a comfortable one. Subtle deviances from established models and patterns of behavior make of Basset Table a play in which gambling, more than butt for customary reprimands, can be seen as occasion for creating a social enclave in which ladies can venture into behaviors which are distinctively different from dominant ones.The cultural and social relevance of gambling cannot be underestimated. If one had only to judge by number of laws which tried to regulate it, gambling would appear, in all its multifarious forms, as common pastime of all layers of society, both high and low. We may wonder at reason for this passion, but if we avoid moral bait and give a closer look to life of some famous gamblers, it can probably be discerned that as they mix their cards, gamblers seem to mix something more: social levels, genders and opportunities. They gamble because their own lives can receive an unforeseen spin from gambling table. Carlo Goldoni, who was entering a steady career as a civil servant for Republic of Venice, threw away this opportunity by forgetting his duty at a table around which four unknown men and a beautiful woman were playing hombre. Unwittingly or not, he staked more than his money. At that table, he staked his career against chance of losing it so that he eventually could become what he really wished: compositor di commedie (playwright). As Giacomo Casanova (to whom we owe most for information on games which were played all over Europe in eighteenth century) witnesses in his Histoire de ma vie, (1789-98) gambling can well be considered as a condensed, symbolic version of spirit of century itself.4 This resemblance that can be explained by what Roger Caillois describes as ingredients that make a game worth playing, that is: agon (competition), alea (chance), mimicry (make-believe), and ilynx (vertigo)5, so that one may wonder if it was exactly this mixture of rules and hazard, calculus and chance, theatricals and thrill that made gambling so attractive to people in eighteenth century. Wasn't gambling a closet version of that speculative inclination to risk which made this century particularly prone to philosophical, political and financial hazards and speculations? And, can a basset table bear burden of this all?The Difference of Basset TableMrs. …" @default.
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• W2603423741 title "Women at Stake: The Self-Assertive Potential of Gambling in Susanna Centlivre's the Basset Table" @default.
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