‘It would become me as well as it does you’: The Tempest, and The Queen’s Gambit
The chess world has come back into public attention with the premiere on Netflix of The Queen’s Gambit, a charming and brilliantly executed fictional story of an orphaned girl who becomes a chess prodigy. But even when it comes to chess, Shakespeare got there first. In The Tempest, the shipwrecked Prospero plays matchmaker between his daughter Miranda and the more recently shipwrecked Ferdinand, who is the rightful Prince of Naples. After setting for Ferdinand tests of endurance that he submits to out of love for Miranda, their courtship culminates in …
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