A Place in the Story: Servants and Service in Shakespeare's PlaysUniversity of Delaware Press, 2005 - 339 strán (strany) 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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Strana 11
... perhaps especially — very exalted ones . Service was a way of explaining and justifying upper - class privileges : a gentleman was , presumably , always ready to defend king or queen and country.5 In addition to serv- ing more exalted ...
... perhaps especially — very exalted ones . Service was a way of explaining and justifying upper - class privileges : a gentleman was , presumably , always ready to defend king or queen and country.5 In addition to serv- ing more exalted ...
Strana 24
... perhaps natural that the remarks such characters in- spire from both their employer - characters and critics are usually dismissive . For example , as Charles Wells points out after noting the multiple betrayals in Antony and Cleopatra ...
... perhaps natural that the remarks such characters in- spire from both their employer - characters and critics are usually dismissive . For example , as Charles Wells points out after noting the multiple betrayals in Antony and Cleopatra ...
Strana 27
... perhaps , is what Mary Hallowell Perkins describes as the loss of " status " and " individuality " as a result of being dependent on an employer , living in someone else's house , eating someone else's food , wearing prescribed clothing ...
... perhaps , is what Mary Hallowell Perkins describes as the loss of " status " and " individuality " as a result of being dependent on an employer , living in someone else's house , eating someone else's food , wearing prescribed clothing ...
Strana 28
... perhaps , because we look past or through them ) , and they are likely to be less interesting to us than are the very poor . The early modern upper classes presumably wanted servants to be other because to empathize with them would ...
... perhaps , because we look past or through them ) , and they are likely to be less interesting to us than are the very poor . The early modern upper classes presumably wanted servants to be other because to empathize with them would ...
Strana 30
... perhaps less likely than Shakespeare's original audi- ence to accept the concept of service as an ideal . Although at least some portion of the population accords respect to military " service " and it is still common to speak of ...
... perhaps less likely than Shakespeare's original audi- ence to accept the concept of service as an ideal . Although at least some portion of the population accords respect to military " service " and it is still common to speak of ...
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The need we have to use you Uses of Servants | 63 |
The mere words a slave Language and Service | 88 |
If I last in this service Loyalty and Disloyalty | 116 |
Good counsel Servants Advice and Commentary | 143 |
Messengers | 158 |
Tis proper I obey him but not now Conflicts of Service | 177 |
Every good servant does not all commands The Duty to Disobey | 200 |
Duty in his service perishing Servants and Violence | 219 |
Remember I have done thee worthy service Conclusion | 237 |
Notes | 243 |
Bibliography | 313 |
Index | 331 |
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A Place in the Story: Servants and Service in Shakespeare's Plays Linda Anderson Zobrazenie úryvkov - 2005 |
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