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    • Author/Creator:Rivlin, Elizabeth J., 1971-
    • Title:The aesthetics of service in Early Modern England / Elizabeth Rivlin.
    • ISBN:9780810127814 (cloth : alk. paper)
      0810127814 (cloth : alk. paper)
    • Published/Created:Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2012.
    • Physical Description:viii, 218 p. ; 24 cm.
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    • Format:Book
    • BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
    • Contents:The aesthetics of service -- Shakespeare's apprenticeship: performing service in the Comedy of errors and The two gentlemen of Verona -- Prose fiction and the mobile servant: Nashe's The unfortunate traveller -- "Play the shoemaker": craft and commerce in Deloney's The gentle craft and Dekker's The shoemaker's holiday -- "Iterate the work": The alchemist and Ben Jonson's Labors of service -- Tragicomic service: The winter's tale and The tempest.
    • Subjects:English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
      Master and servant in literature.
      Household employees in literature.