In The Aesthetics of Service in Early Modern England, Elizabeth Rivlin explores the ways in which servant-master relationships reshaped literature. The early mo
Rebecca Lemon illuminates a previously-buried conception of addiction, as a form of devotion at once laudable, difficult, and extraordinary, that has been conce
From the wealth of textual material about female servants, The author has chosen four representative texts for inclusion in this volume. They have been chosen t
A new literary history of the origins of metaphysical poetry in the urban environment of early modern London, considering the work of John Marston, Thomas Nashe
At Work in the Early Modern English Theater: Valuing Labor explores the economics of the theater by examining how drama seeks to make sense of changing concepti