A Place in the Story: Servants and Service in Shakespeare's PlaysUniversity of Delaware Press, 2005 - 339 oldal 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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... comic , especially in her ver- bosity , her outrage at Mercutio's mockery , and her misunder- standings of what is said to her ( Romeo 1.3.12-58 ; 2.4.143-206 ) . But she is also clever enough to be intentionally comic , as when she ...
... comic , especially in her ver- bosity , her outrage at Mercutio's mockery , and her misunder- standings of what is said to her ( Romeo 1.3.12-58 ; 2.4.143-206 ) . But she is also clever enough to be intentionally comic , as when she ...
77. oldal
... comic relief or are sim- ply comic characters ; in fact , there are so many funny servants in the plays that only a couple of examples can be discussed in any detail . In general , Shakespeare's comic servants , like his servant ...
... comic relief or are sim- ply comic characters ; in fact , there are so many funny servants in the plays that only a couple of examples can be discussed in any detail . In general , Shakespeare's comic servants , like his servant ...
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... comic butt whose presence threatens to unbalance his play by becoming overly dramatic and sympa- thetic.20 Caliban gloating over what his drunken " god " might do to Prospero is comic ; Caliban himself , seriously intent on killing ...
... comic butt whose presence threatens to unbalance his play by becoming overly dramatic and sympa- thetic.20 Caliban gloating over what his drunken " god " might do to Prospero is comic ; Caliban himself , seriously intent on killing ...
Tartalomjegyzék
Preface | 9 |
Service as Ideal and Indignity | 30 |
Uses of Servants | 63 |
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