Masters and servants in English Renaissance drama and culture : authority and obedience / Mark Thornton Burnett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burnett, Mark Thornton.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Early modern literature in history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

Master and servant--England--History--16th century.

Master and servant.

English drama--17th century--History and criticism.

Master and servant--England--History--17th century.

Master and servant in literature.

Household employees in literature.

Authority in literature.

Obedience in literature.

Renaissance--England.

Renaissance.

History.

England.

Physical Description:

xii, 225 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Summary:

Drawing upon archival material as well as 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, Mark Thornton 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 "culture", and spaces within which forms of political resistance could be realized.

Contents:

1. Apprenticeship and Society 14

2. Crafts and Trades 54

3. Carnival, the Trickster and the Male Domestic Servant 79

4. Women, Patriarchy and Service 118

5. The Noble Household 155.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-216) and index.

ISBN:

0312175922

OCLC:

36672030