A Place in the Story: Servants and Service in Shakespeare's PlaysUniversity of Delaware Press, 2005 - 339 páginas This book explores the virtues Shakespeare made of the cultural necessities of servants and service. Although all of Shakespeare's plays feature servants as characters, and many of these characters play prominent roles, surprisingly little attention has been paid to them or to the concept of service. A Place in the Story is the first book-length overview of the uses Shakespeare makes of servant-characters and the early modern concept of service. Service was not only a fact of life in Shakespeare's era, but also a complex ideology. The book discusses service both as an ideal and an insult, examines how servants function in the plays, and explores the language of service. Other topics include loyalty, advice, messengers, conflict, disobedience, and violence. Servants were an intrinsic part of early modern life and Shakespeare found servant-characters and the concept of service useful in many different ways. Linda Anderson teaches at Virginia Polytechnic University. |
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... Less obvious " forgettings , " how- ever , are often more interesting . Since Timon declares to his Steward " I have forgot all men " ( Timon 4.3.478 ) , it would not be surprising if , as he insists , he had forgotten the Steward and ...
... Less obvious " forgettings , " how- ever , are often more interesting . Since Timon declares to his Steward " I have forgot all men " ( Timon 4.3.478 ) , it would not be surprising if , as he insists , he had forgotten the Steward and ...
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... less comic , the same device has the opposite cause and effect for Caliban . The consequence of putting the drunken Ste- phano in charge of Prospero's murder , as Francis E. Dolan , among others , has noted , is to make the plot comic ...
... less comic , the same device has the opposite cause and effect for Caliban . The consequence of putting the drunken Ste- phano in charge of Prospero's murder , as Francis E. Dolan , among others , has noted , is to make the plot comic ...
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... less apt than such contemporaries as Chapman and Jonson to use messengers ' speeches , while Beckerman estimates that Shakespeare's Globe plays use about five times as many messengers as the non - Shakespear- ean Globe plays ( 205 ) . 2 ...
... less apt than such contemporaries as Chapman and Jonson to use messengers ' speeches , while Beckerman estimates that Shakespeare's Globe plays use about five times as many messengers as the non - Shakespear- ean Globe plays ( 205 ) . 2 ...
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Preface | 9 |
Service as Ideal and Indignity | 30 |
Uses of Servants | 63 |
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