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A Game at Chess

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His chief stage success was A Game at Chess (1625), in which the Black King and his men, representing Spain and the Jesuits, are checkmated by the White Knight, Prince Charles. This political satire drew crowds to the Globe Theatre until the Spanish ambassador protested and James I suppressed the…
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In Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, count de Gondomar
…Black Knight) of his play A Game at Chaess (1625), which was suppressed. At the height of his unpopularity in 1622, Gondomar was recalled to Spain and there made a member of the Council of State.
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