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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71. oldal
... sometimes performed by hired musicians , who are effectively common ser- vants of anyone who will pay their fee , but is more often per- formed by a group of an individual employer's servants at his or her command.25 Individual servants ...
... sometimes performed by hired musicians , who are effectively common ser- vants of anyone who will pay their fee , but is more often per- formed by a group of an individual employer's servants at his or her command.25 Individual servants ...
116. oldal
... sometimes to the extent of laying down his life for his friends . One may look at love therefore as an abandonment of self to the object of one's love , as a suspension of self - interest , as it were . But from this it follows that ...
... sometimes to the extent of laying down his life for his friends . One may look at love therefore as an abandonment of self to the object of one's love , as a suspension of self - interest , as it were . But from this it follows that ...
143. oldal
... sometimes gos- sip about their employers and sometimes flatter them , but often provide them with useful information , comment seriously and in- telligently about their behavior , counsel and comfort them , and argue with them . Rarely ...
... sometimes gos- sip about their employers and sometimes flatter them , but often provide them with useful information , comment seriously and in- telligently about their behavior , counsel and comfort them , and argue with them . Rarely ...
Tartalomjegyzék
Preface | 9 |
Service as Ideal and Indignity | 30 |
Uses of Servants | 63 |
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