Mythos of labor : The shoemaker's holiday and the origin of citizen history / Crystal Bartolovich -- Citizens and aliens as working subjects in Dekker's The shoemaker's holiday / John Michael Archer -- Staging alien women's work in civic pageants / Natasha Korda -- Osmologies of luxury and labor : entertaining perfumers in early English drama / Holly Dugan -- Englishmen for my money : work and social conflict? / Tom Rutter -- Will Kempe's work : performing the player's masculinity in Kempe's Nine daies wonder / Ronda Arab -- The rogues' paradox : redefining work in The alchemist / Elizabeth Rivlin -- Desiring subects : staging the female servant in early modern tragedy / Michelle M. Dowd -- Domestic work in progress entertainments / Sara Mueller -- "You take no labour" : women workers of magic in early modern England / Molly Hand -- Raising Mephistopheles : performative representation and alienated labor in The tempest / David Hawkes -- Custom, debt, and the valuation of service within and without early modern England / Amanda Bailey -- The comic-tragedy of labor : a global story / Valerie Forman -- Labor and travel on the early modern stage : representing the travail of travel in Dekker's Old Fortunatus and Shakespeare's Pericles / Daniel Vitkus -- Afterword : Early modern work and the work of representation / Jean E. Howard