Representing the Professions: Administration, Law, and Theater in Early Modern England.(Book review) From: Renaissance Quarterly | Date: December 22, 2006| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2006 The Renaissance Society of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Edward Gieskes. Representing the Professions: Administration, Law, and Theater in Early Modern England.

Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2006. 366 pp. index. bibl. $60. ISBN: 0-87413-929-5.

When John Falstaff justifies the morality of purse-taking as a proper exercise of his "vocation," he is invoking the ethical autonomy of his field of activity. When Thomas Dekker's Simon Eyre boasts of having a "princely mind," he is asserting the elevated social status his "profession" of shoemaker grants him. Edward Gieskes's book investigates the development of such ...

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