Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture : Authority and Obedience (Early Modern Literature in History) -- Hardback

Burnett, Mark Thornton

Palgrave Macmillan（1997/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 240 p.
• 商品コード 9780333694572
• DDC分類 822.309

Full Description

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.

Contents

Acknowledgements - Abbreviations and Conventions - Introduction - Apprenticeship and Society - Crafts and Trades - Carnival, the Trickster and the Male Domestic Servant - Women, Patriarchy and Service - The Noble Household - Bibliography - Index