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Author Evett, David, author.

Title Discourses of service in Shakespeare's England / David Evett
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 286 pages)
Contents Ch. 1. The paradox of service and freedom -- Ch. 2. The hop and the pole : the limits of materialism -- Ch. 3. "Surprising confrontations" : discourses of service in The taming of the shrew -- Ch. 4. "Monsieur, we are not lettered" : classical influences and the early modern marketplace -- Ch. 5. "Clubs, bills, and partisans" : retainer violence and male bonding -- Ch. 6. Fidelis Servus ... : good service and the obligations of obedience -- Ch. 7. ... Perpetuus Asinus : bad service and the primacy of the will -- Ch. 8. "A place in the story" : gender, commodity, alienation, and service -- Ch. 9. "As willing as bondage e'er of freedom" : the vindication of willing service in The tempest
Summary One way or another, nearly all of Shakespeare's countrymen and women (including the playwright himself) spent at least parts of their lives as servants of someone else. But until now that fact has gone largely unregarded. This book remedies the oversight, by showing how the ideals and practices of early modern service affect dozens of characters in almost all Shakespeare's plays, in ways that enrich our understanding of familiar figures like Iago and Falstaff and enhance the significance of lesser-known people and events across the canon
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Household employees
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Subject Master and servant -- England -- History -- 16th century
Master and servant -- England -- History -- 17th century
Household employees -- England -- History -- 16th century
Household employees -- England -- History -- 17th century
Master and servant in literature.
Household employees in literature.
Servants in literature
Literary theory.
Shakespeare studies & criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
Literature.
Household employees
Household employees in literature
Master and servant
Master and servant in literature
England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004059777
ISBN 9781403978882
1403978883
1281364304
9781281364302
9781403968159
1403968152
9786611364304
6611364307