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Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture: Authority and Obedience

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Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture: Authority and Obedience - 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 ...

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Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture: Authority and Obedience 1997, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

ISBN-13: 9780333694572

Hardcover