Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture

Authority and Obedience

• Author(s): M. Burnett,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 225
• ISBN_10: 023038014X
  ISBN_13: 9780230380141
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Modern / General , History / Europe / General , Social Science / Sociology / General , History / Europe / Great Britain / General , History / Social History , Literary Criticism / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

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.