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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Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
Language: | English |
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Early modern literature in history
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230380141 |
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'...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 |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780333694572, 1997. |
Carrier Form: | 240 p. |
Audience: | Undergraduate. |
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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. |