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24Lewis Carroll3. Carroll, “‘Alice’ on the Stage,” from The Theatre (April 1887),rprt. in Collingwood, ed., Diversions and Digressions, p. 171; seeHenkle, “Comedies of Liberation,” p. 72, and Greenacre, Swiftand Carroll, pp. 243–244.4. See Huizinga, Homo Ludens, p. 11: “The spoil-sport shattersthe play-world itself. By withdrawing from the game he revealsthe relativity and fragility of the play-world in which he hadtemporarily shut himself with others.” This is why he is muchless tolerated by other players even than the cheat.5. Piaget, Play, Dreams and Imitation, Chap. 7, especially pp. 179f.6. Empson, p. 270.7. See Hoyle’s Games, rev. by R. F. Foster (New York, 1926),p. 178. The forfeiture rule is sometimes understood, sometimesmade explicit, as in this edition.