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Your move: title page of A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton, showing the characters (including the Fatte Bishop) as they appeared on stage. From Shakespearean London Theatres by Peter Sillitoe, edited by Maurice Hindle (ShaLT, £6.50 (£5.85); 978-0-957-53790-3), which considers the playhouses, audiences, actors and dramatists 1570-1642. A walking map is included

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