A Place in the Story: Servants and Service in Shakespeare's PlaysUniversity of Delaware Press, 2005 - 339 sidor 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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... relationship . Political life was conceived of as public service ; war was military service ; lovers served their ladies ; domestic life consisted of a master who was owed various kinds of service by his wife , children , and servants ...
... relationship . Political life was conceived of as public service ; war was military service ; lovers served their ladies ; domestic life consisted of a master who was owed various kinds of service by his wife , children , and servants ...
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... relationships in a period of economic and so- cial change could , in fact , be said to provide perfect dramatic material.2 Although service was an ideal , it was also a practical matter : in an era of limited technology , a division of ...
... relationships in a period of economic and so- cial change could , in fact , be said to provide perfect dramatic material.2 Although service was an ideal , it was also a practical matter : in an era of limited technology , a division of ...
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... relationship between master and servant was ac- knowledged as a human creation , it was nevertheless often de- scribed as being as natural and basic as that between husband and wife or parent and child . This inconsistency is typical of ...
... relationship between master and servant was ac- knowledged as a human creation , it was nevertheless often de- scribed as being as natural and basic as that between husband and wife or parent and child . This inconsistency is typical of ...
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... relationship : As thou lov'st me , Camillo , wipe not out the rest of thy services by leaving me now . The need I have of thee thine own goodness hath made . Better not to have had thee than thus 32 A PLACE IN THE STORY.
... relationship : As thou lov'st me , Camillo , wipe not out the rest of thy services by leaving me now . The need I have of thee thine own goodness hath made . Better not to have had thee than thus 32 A PLACE IN THE STORY.
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... relationship can be de- scribed in terms of service.10 Though we are inclined to think of service as something done by servants and peasants , Shake- speare often depicts rich and powerful characters as serving or at least thinking ...
... relationship can be de- scribed in terms of service.10 Though we are inclined to think of service as something done by servants and peasants , Shake- speare often depicts rich and powerful characters as serving or at least thinking ...
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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 |
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A Place in the Story: Servants and Service in Shakespeare's Plays Linda Anderson Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 2005 |
A Place in the Story: Servants and Service in Shakespeare's Plays Linda Anderson Ingen förhandsgranskning - 2005 |
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Sida 31 - That to the observer doth thy history Fully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Sida 6 - The loyalty well held to fools does make Our faith mere folly : yet he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fall'n lord Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i
Sida 33 - O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed...