The Aesthetics of Service in Early Modern England

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Index Admiral’s Men, 91, 103, 105, 186n71 aesthetics, 4, 11, 24, 125; didactic literature and, 13, 16; social life and, 38; subjectivity and, 63 aesthetic service, 3, 8, 62, 69, 108; agency through, 157; defined, 4; extremes of, 24; instability for patriarchal structures, 43, 55; patriarchal duty and, 54; as resistance, 161–62; service economy and, 102; social advancement and, 17; subjectivities formed by, 15, 16, 18, 162; women in vanguard of, 18 agency, 4, 44, 69, 74, 93, 163; patronage and, 108; of Shakespearean servants, 136; socially mixed, 144; of women, 18 Alchemist, The (Jonson), 7, 12, 18, 107–9, 131; criminal enterprise in, 110–11; dedication (“To the Reader”), 19, 123–24, 125, 128, 130; performance of, 121; rhetoric of patronage in, 20; rogue servants in, 110–21; service as disreputable profession, 24 alchemy, 112–13, 118, 187n13 Alleyne, Richard, 103–4 Amphitruo (Plautus), 31, 172n12 Anabaptists, 60–62, 65, 115 Anatomie of Absurditie, The (Nashe), 73 Anderson, Linda, 10 Antigonus (Shakespeare character), 149, 192n26 Antipholuses (Shakespeare characters), 32–33, 155, 173n17, 174n29; bonds with servants, 33–35; as twinned masters, 30–31 Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare), 33 appendixes, 55–56 apprentices/apprenticeship, 11, 17, 20, 99, 111, 154; gender and, 47, 175n50; in The Gentle Craft, 75, 79; importance in urban economy, 187n11; Jonson and, 132; marriage and, 85, 86, 88; Shakespeare and, 27, 136; soldiering and, 86–87 Arab, Ronda, 185n64 Ariel (Shakespeare character), 25, 162; representations of Prospero, 157–59; as slave and servant, 157, 193n37 aristocracy/aristocrats, 77, 83, 87, 118, 154, 180n6; African slaves in service to, 156; capitalistic urban economy and, 23; cycle of inheritance and consumption, 95; disguised in humble form, 62, 94; downward mobility and, 66, 183n44; exchanges of identity and, 93, 97, 98; Inns of Court students, 36; service as apprentices, 12; service institutions rooted in household, 10; in The Shoemaker’s Holiday, 94; treated in low style, 8; values of, 75; writers and patronage of, 19, 20, 54, 56, 68 Aristotle, 5–6, 78, 127 Arte of English Poesie, The (Puttenham), 8 artisans and the artisanal, 6, 96, 122, 154, 185n55; in audiences, 94; authors as, 75; mythologizing of, 82; servants as, 75, 86, 92, 95; theater and, 103 Ascham, Roger, 7, 8, 166n18 Astrophil and Stella (Sidney), 70, 71 audiences, 21, 74, 102; for The Comedy of Errors, 35–38; Jonson’s address to, 124; royal, 93; Shakespeare and, 135, 137, 164; sympathetic identification and, 33 Auerbach, Erich, 166n20 authors/authorship, 21, 108, 125; authors as servants, 11, 12, 125, 134; authorship as service, 162; marginal position of, 109; between patronage and commerce, 129, 134; patrons of, 19, 57; readership’s anonymity and, 21 Autolycus (Shakespeare character), 8, 24, 137, 138, 149, 162; artifice in service role of, 139; deceptions of, 151–52; illusion of emancipation from service, 142, 152–53; as “merry beggar,” 152; as rogue, 136 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 182n35 ballads, 73, 75, 78, 88, 101 209 Bartholomew Fair (Jonson), 135, 190n51 Becon, Thomas, 14, 156 Ben-Amos, Ilana Krausman, 167n34, 181n23 Benfield, Robert, 122 Bevis of Hampton, 78, 181n20 Bible, 14, 61, 177n14 Blackfriars playhouse, 112, 121, 137 Boehrer, Bruce, 109–10 bonds, rhetoric of, 33–35, 173nn15–16 bookbinders, 17, 20 Book of the Courtier (Castiglione), 139– 41, 144, 150–51 Borne, William, 104 bourgeois subject/state, 5, 165n6 Brathwait, Richard, 15 Bristow, James, 103 Brome, Richard, 130–32 Brown, Paul, 160, 193n45 Bruster, Douglas, 21 Burbage brothers, 121 Burnett, Mark Thornton, 10, 183n44 Caliban (Shakespeare character), 9, 25; aesthetic service as resistance, 161–62; imitation and, 159–60; patriarchal service opposed by, 159; as “servantmonster ,” 135; as slave, 157, 159, 193n37; subjectivity of, 163 Camillo (Shakespeare character), 24, 137, 138, 139, 145–54 capitalism, 3, 12, 16, 25, 138; entrepreneurs, 107, 108; in London, 88; paternalistic service and, 169n59; self-deception of masters and, 125; servants’ self-definition and, 82; service in contractual and occasional forms, 10, 11, 167n34; slavery and, 155; subjectivity and, 18; theater and, 102, 121–22; tragicomic genre and, 137, 190n6; ventures detached from labor, 116. See also economy, commercial/ urban; service, capitalist forms of Castiglione, Baldesar, 139, 146 cave, Plato’s allegory of, 64 Caveat for Common Cursitors, A (Harman), 114, 139, 141–44 Caxton, William, 81, 82, 183n36 character, as verb, 41, 174n36 Charlton, H. B., 9–10 Christianity, 81, 82 Clark, Peter, 17 class, social, 10, 28, 75, 166n20, 189n32; class consciousness, 88; class struggle, 11; corporate class of London, 115; imitation and, 49; new...