Thesiss

What is proposed in this study is that chess-games in the works of Thomas Stearns Eliot and Samuel Barclay Beckett are among the most well-defined and clear-cut arenas these authors have found for foregrounding a particularly problematic protagonist. And it is proposed that Beck…

The purpose of this thesis is to deal with the origins of chess before AD 500 with attention to the record of sources and commentaries in the Babylonian Talmud. At the same time the names of other games which could be connected with chess are analysed. It is argued that Jews pla…