Judith WeilService and Dependency in Shakespeare's Plays
Judith Weil has recently retired from the post of Professor of English at the University of Manitoba. Co-editor, with her husband Herbert Weil, of 'The First Part of King Henry IV' (Cambridge, 1997), she has published widely on Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, including essays in 'Marlowe, History and Sexuality: New Essays on the Life and Writings of Christopher Marlowe', ed. Paul Whitfield White, 'Renaissance Female Tragic Heroines', ed. Naomi Conn Liebler and 'Approaches to Teaching English Renaissance Drama', ed. Alexander Leggatt and Karen Bamford.
Preface
1. Introduction: 'slippery people'
2. Sons, daughters and servants
3. Wives and servants
4. Friends and servants
5. Tragic dependencies in King Lear
6. Freedom, service and slavery in Macbeth
7. Epilogue: some reflections on the porter
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
