List of plays related to chess

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List of stage works in which the content of the game of chess is referred to. Pieces in which chess appears marginally or as a mere color scheme are not included. For fictional films or works of fiction with chess motifs, see the list of films in which chess occurs or the list of fiction literature with chess-related main content .

  • Thomas Middleton : A Game at Chess , 1624
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Götz von Berlichingen , 1773, premier 1774, beginning of the 2nd act
  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Nathan the Wise , 1779, UA 1783
  • August Gottlieb Meißner : The Chess Player , 1782
  • Heinrich Beck : The chess machine, or stroke of genius over stroke of genius , Leipzig 1797; The Schaakmachine , free translation into Dutch by C. Sauer, 1803
  • Giuseppe Giacosa : Una partita a scacchi , WP 1873
  • Ninette de Valois , Arthur Bliss : Checkmate , ballet in one act, premiered in Paris 1937
  • Chess , Musical, 1984, WP 1986
  • Lars Norén : Bobby Fischer bor i Pasadena , WP Swedish TV 1990; Bobby Fischer lives in Pasadena , German by Hansjörg Betschart, DSE Staatstheater Wiesbaden 1999; Bobby Fischer vit à Pasadena , French by Amélie Berg, 2002

literature

  • Nikolaos Karatsioras: The hard and the amorphous. The game of chess as a construction and imagination model of literary texts , Frank and Timme, Berlin 2011.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Götz von Berlichingen with the iron hand. Weimar: Hermann Böhlau, 1889, page 53 ff. Digitized
  2. ^ A b Daniel Willard Fiske: Bibliographische Mitteilungen, Schachzeitung , April 1863, pp. 108–110, here p. 109, digitized version
  3. ↑ it: ws: Una partita a scacchi
  4. ↑ Bobby Fischer lives in Pasadena , Rowohlt Theater Verlag
  5. ^ Lars Norén , L'Arche Editeur