Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… defines gaming as “to play wantonly and extravagantly for money.” Other laws aimed, with little success, at suppressing the games of faro , basset or hazard (1739) or at preventing taverns and coffeehouses from serving as gambling … each other, it could generate a certain amount of passion. While Rowlandson’s The Gaming Table (1801) captures the expressions of the (all male) players who are about to bet on the roll of the dice, his Kick Up at a Hazard Table (1787) … the Accomplish’d Fools. A Comedy (London, 1705), The Plays of Richard Steele, ed. Shirley Strumkenny (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971). 8 . In 1754, the Connoisseur regretted: "They [the ladies] are at present very deep in cards and dice." The …
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