| Description |
1 online resource (x, 317 pages) |
| Contents |
"Thou serv'st me, and I'll love thee" : love and service in Shakespeare's world -- Performance and imagination : The taming of the shrew and A midsummer night's dream -- "His man, unbound" : The comedy of errors and The tempest -- "More than a steward" : the sonnets, Twelfth night, and Timon of Athens -- "Office and devotion" : Henry IV Parts I and 2, the sonnets, and Antony and Cleopatra -- "I am your own forever" : King Lear and Othello -- "Something more than man" : The winter's tale |
| Summary |
Peter Laslett's comment, in The World We Have Lost, that in the early modern period 'every relationship could be seen as a love-relationship' presents the governing idea of this book. In an analysis that includes Shakespeare's sonnets and a wide range of his plays from The Comedy of Errors to The Winter's Tale, David Schalkwyk looks at the ways in which the personal, affective relations of love are informed by the social, structural interactions of service. Showing that service is not a 'class' concept, but rather determined the fundamental conditions of identity across the whole society, the book explores the inter-penetration of structure and effect in relationships as varied as monarch and subject, aristocrat and personal servant, master and slave, husband and wife, and lover and beloved, in the light of differences of rank, gender and sexual identity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-310) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 07, 2020) |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Philosophy.
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| SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. fast (OCoLC)fst00029048 |
| Subject |
Love in literature.
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Interpersonal relations in literature.
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Master and servant in literature.
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Social structure in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Gender identity in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
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DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
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Gender identity in literature.
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Interpersonal relations in literature.
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Love in literature.
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Master and servant in literature.
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Philosophy.
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Sex role in literature.
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Social structure in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780511483936 |
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0511483937 |
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9780511396816 |
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0511396813 |
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9780511399176 |
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0511399170 |
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0511397585 |
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9780511397585 |
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