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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... murderer , although he is not anxious enough to serve his master Pompey to do the murders without first getting Pompey's permission , which he does not receive.13 Some servants do commit murder , although most of the hired murderers in ...
... murderer , although he is not anxious enough to serve his master Pompey to do the murders without first getting Pompey's permission , which he does not receive.13 Some servants do commit murder , although most of the hired murderers in ...
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... murder ; the lost play Page of Plymouth also apparently depicted servants assisting in the murder of their master . In The Spanish Tragedy , Pedringano helps to kill Horatio and murders Serberine , although it could be argued in his ...
... murder ; the lost play Page of Plymouth also apparently depicted servants assisting in the murder of their master . In The Spanish Tragedy , Pedringano helps to kill Horatio and murders Serberine , although it could be argued in his ...
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... murder Balthazar's servant Serberine , but betrays Pedringano to ensure his execution ( 2.1.59-93 ; 3.2.70-90 ; 3.3.30-33 ; 3.6.104–13 ) . In A Yorkshire Tragedy , the Husband throws downstairs a Maid who cries for help as he tries to ...
... murder Balthazar's servant Serberine , but betrays Pedringano to ensure his execution ( 2.1.59-93 ; 3.2.70-90 ; 3.3.30-33 ; 3.6.104–13 ) . In A Yorkshire Tragedy , the Husband throws downstairs a Maid who cries for help as he tries to ...
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Preface | 9 |
Service as Ideal and Indignity | 30 |
Uses of Servants | 63 |
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