ABSTRACT
If Renaissance dramatic satire gained resonance from the impending death of Elizabeth, the epidemic spread of venereal disease, and the rise of the commercial theatre, it also acquired a particularly personal edge from social changes in the nature and practice of service in the period. The structure of service and career aspiration in the period-a period of unprecedented social mobility in which social roles and social boundaries were being continually interrogated and cast into doubt-dramatically and distinctly impacted dramatic satire in the period.
