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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... simply attend their masters and mistresses , Shakespeare goes far beyond such representations . Early plays such as The Comedy of Errors , The Two Gentlemen of Verona , and The Taming of the Shrew show him working with the type of the ...
... simply attend their masters and mistresses , Shakespeare goes far beyond such representations . Early plays such as The Comedy of Errors , The Two Gentlemen of Verona , and The Taming of the Shrew show him working with the type of the ...
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... simply regarded as " public servants , " at the command of anyone who paid their fees . This may help to explain why Pistol , who has no hesitation about acknowledging even so poor a knight as Falstaff as " master mine " ( Merry Wives ...
... simply regarded as " public servants , " at the command of anyone who paid their fees . This may help to explain why Pistol , who has no hesitation about acknowledging even so poor a knight as Falstaff as " master mine " ( Merry Wives ...
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... simply refuses to despair or be beaten . Above all , it is his service to his father and Lear's cause , his willingness to forget his own sufferings to help others , that ultimately leads him to such limited triumph as the play makes ...
... simply refuses to despair or be beaten . Above all , it is his service to his father and Lear's cause , his willingness to forget his own sufferings to help others , that ultimately leads him to such limited triumph as the play makes ...
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... servants themselves . Such contrasts are , of course , far more dramatically effective than simply assigning all virtue and intelligence to the upper classes and all vice and folly to the lower 1 : " THE LIVES OF OTHER " : INTRODUCTION 27.
... servants themselves . Such contrasts are , of course , far more dramatically effective than simply assigning all virtue and intelligence to the upper classes and all vice and folly to the lower 1 : " THE LIVES OF OTHER " : INTRODUCTION 27.
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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 |
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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.
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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...