Book review: Shakespeare and Commemoration by Clara Calvo and Ton Hoenselaars

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in contrast, as highlighting acts of subversion. Indeed, ‘some domestic tragedies depict householder servants as more perceptive, more intelligent, and sometimes more morally admirable than their masters’ (pp. 229–30). The staging of the anxieties and tensions between master and servant in the homes of the middling sort opened up a space for such questions to be examined and, Sheeha argues, the depiction of servants as individuals, not stereotypes, ‘may be the genre’s greatest achievement’ (p. 231).