Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture
Authority and Obedience
Authors: Burnett, M.
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Drawing upon archival material as well as the drama, popular verse and pamphlets, this book reads representations of masters and servants in relation to key Renaissance preoccupations. Apprentices, journeymen, male domestic servants, maidservants and stewards, Burnett argues, were deployed in literary texts to address questions about the exercise of power, social change and the threat of economic upheaval. In this way, writers were instrumental in creating servant 'cultures', and spaces within which forms of political resistance could be realized.
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MIKE THORNTON BURNETT
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'...an impressive work which sifts through a wealth of material...the arguments he advances about what the master-servant relations reveal about early modern English society's attitudes toward class, power, and sexuality make this work [incisive and useful to students of the Renaissance]...his treatment of masters and servants in early modern British culture is...quite masterful.' - Julie H. Kim, Early Modern Literary Studies
'...our most compelling study yet of the ways in which service was represented in the cultural documents of early modern England.' - Douglas Bruster, Shakespeare Quarterly
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-13
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Apprenticeship and Society
Pages 14-53
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Crafts and Trades
Pages 54-78
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Carnival, the Trickster and the Male Domestic Servant
Pages 79-117
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Women, Patriarchy and Service
Pages 118-154
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture
- Book Subtitle
- Authority and Obedience
- Authors
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- M. Burnett
- Series Title
- Early Modern Literature in History
- Copyright
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-38014-1
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230380141
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-333-69457-2
- Series ISSN
- 2634-5919
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 225
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