Time and again; early modern plays show people at work: shoemaking; grave-digging; and professional acting are just some of the forms of labour that theatregoers could have seen depicted on stage in 1599 and 1600. Tom Rutter demonstrates how such representations were shaped by the theatres own problematic relationship with work: actors earned their living through playing; a practice that many considered idle and illegitimate; while plays were criticised for enticing servants and apprentices from their labour. As a result; the drama of Shakespeares time became the focal point of wider debates over what counted as work; who should have to do it; and how it should be valued. This book describes changing beliefs about work in the sixteenth century; and shows how different ways of conceptualising the work of the governing class inform Shakespeares histories. It identifies important contrasts between plays written for the adult and child repertories.
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