The aesthetics of service in Early Modern England
By: Elizabeth Rivlin
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780810127814
Subjects: English literature; Master and servant in literature; History and criticism; Household employees in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-208) and index.
Table of contents: title: The aesthetics of service; title: Shakespeare's apprenticeship: performing service in the Comedy of errors and The two gentlemen of Verona; title: Prose fiction and the mobile servant: Nashe's The unfortunate traveller; title: "Play the shoemaker": craft and commerce in Deloney's The gentle craft and Dekker's The shoemaker's holiday; title: "Iterate the work": The alchemist and Ben Jonson's Labors of service; title: Tragicomic service: The winter's tale and The tempest.