Masters and servants in English Renaissance drama and culture authority and obedience /

'...an impressive work which sifts through a wealth of material...the arguments he advances about what the master-servant relations reveal about early modern English society's attitudes toward class, power, and sexuality make this work [incisive and useful to students of the Renaissance].....

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Main Authors: Burnett, Mark Thornton, 1961
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Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: Early modern literature in history
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230380141
Summary: '...an impressive work which sifts through a wealth of material...the arguments he advances about what the master-servant relations reveal about early modern English society's attitudes toward class, power, and sexuality make this work [incisive and useful to students of the Renaissance]...his treatment of masters and servants in early modern British culture is...quite masterful.' - Julie H. Kim, Early Modern Literary Studies '...our most compelling study yet of the ways in which service was represented in the cultural documents of early modern England.' - Douglas Bruster, Shakespeare Quarte
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780333694572, 1997.
Carrier Form: 240 p.
Audience: Undergraduate.
ISBN: 9780333694572
9780230380141 :
023038014X :
CLC: I561.073
Contents: Acknowledgements - Abbreviations and Conventions - Introduction - Apprenticeship and Society - Crafts and Trades - Carnival, the Trickster and the Male Domestic Servant - Women, Patriarchy and Service - The Noble Household - Bibliography - Index.