Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy, 1st Edition eBook

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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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Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy 1st Edition is written by Iman Sheeha and published by Routledge. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy are 9781000074512, 100007451X and the print ISBNs are 9780367503772, 0367503778. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9780367498856, 9781003047940, 9781000074468, 9781000074413.