Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy

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Iman Sheeha

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Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

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Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy considerably advances existing scholarship on the institution of service in early modern culture and as represented on the early modern stage. With its focus on the homes of the middling sorts, to whom the protagonists of domestic tragedy belong, the book expands our understanding of employer-servant relationships beyond elite and aristocratic circles, the focus of previous studies. Drawing on early modern advice literature, household guides, domestic manuals, sermons, treatises, proverbs, mothers’ legacies, funeral sermons, diaries, letters, and jest books as well as making use of the recent findings by social and cultural historians of early modern England, the book examines the consequences of disordered domesticity for the master-servant relationship. This study nuances the picture of domestic servants constructed by both early modern moralists and modern scholarship, arguing against overarching, reductive narratives. The book argues that the experience of household service as depicted in domestic tragedy, like in real life, was complex and varied and that there was no typical experience of service.

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Iman Sheeha is Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Brunel University, London. Her research articles have appeared in Early Theatre, Early Modern Literary Studies, and American Notes and Queries. She is co-editing a special issue on liminal domestic spaces in early modern culture and literature for Early Modern Literary Studies.

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June 15th, 2020

Author

Iman Sheeha

Series

Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

Pages

254

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

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2 Halftones, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white

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9780367498856

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33537241

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