A place in the story : servants and service in Shakespeare's plays
"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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2005
University of Delaware Press, Newark, Del., ©2005
History
339 pages ; 24 cm
9780874139259, 0874139252
57750188
"The lives of other": Introduction
"What duty is": Service as ideal and indignity
"The need we have to use you": Uses of servants
"The mere word's a slave": Language and service
"If I last in this service": Loyalty and disloyalty
"Good counsel": Servants' advice and commentary
"A losing office": Messengers
"'Tis proper I obey him, but not now": Conflicts of service
"Every good servant does not all commands": The duty to disobey
"Duty in his service perishing": Servants and violence
"Remember I have done thee worthy service": Conclusion