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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Anderson, Linda, 1949 May 24- Place in the story. Newark, Del. : University of Delaware Press, ©2005 (OCoLC)607595964 Online version: Anderson, Linda, 1949 May 24- Place in the story. Newark, Del. : University of Delaware Press, ©2005 (OCoLC)608744033 |
Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Linda Anderson |
ISBN: | 0874139252 9780874139259 |
OCLC Number: | 57750188 |
Description: | 339 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | "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. |
Responsibility: | Linda Anderson. |
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Abstract:
Explores the virtues Shakespeare made of the cultural necessities of servants and service. This book offers an overview of the uses Shakespeare makes of servant-characters and the early modern concept of service. It discusses service both as an ideal and an insult, examines how servants function in the plays, and explores the language of service.
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