The aesthetics of service -- Shakespeare's apprenticeship: performing service in the Comedy of errors and The two gentlemen of Verona -- Prose fiction and the mobile servant: Nashe's The unfortunate traveller -- "Play the shoemaker": craft and commerce in Deloney's The gentle craft and Dekker's The shoemaker's holiday -- "Iterate the work": The alchemist and Ben Jonson's Labors of service -- Tragicomic service: The winter's tale and The tempest.