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Thesis Overview. The four chapters of this thesis analyse how social constructions of status, alongside those of gender, race, and sexuality, form an elite female servant’s identity. It is not my intention to construct a monolithic figure, but rather to draw attention to the nuances and paradoxes which shape elite female servants across early modern drama. In this thesis, I situate elite female 110 For example, Xxxxxxx in The Merchant of Venice (1596-8) is presented across editions as ‘waiting woman’ (Arden 3), ‘lady-in-waiting’ (Cambridge), ‘waiting-maid’ (Penguin Classics), and ‘Portia’s gentlewoman’ (Oxford Shakespeare). The 1637 third quarto was the first text to assign Xxxxxxx the title of ‘waiting gentlewoman’. The status of her mistress and her own actions as she participates in Xxxxxx’s affairs make it clear that Xxxxxxx is a waiting gentlewoman. Although the Oxford Xxxxxxxxxxx is correct in defining her as ‘Portia’s gentlewoman’, the range of

Thesis Overview. Chap. 2 presents a number of studies performed using astrochemical modeling. In §2.2.1, I first present the results of a study that aimed to test the effects of varying methanol pho- todissociation branching ratios on methyl formate and its structural isomers. In a related note—and also in Chap. 2—I present the results of modeling the efficiency of a novel gas-phase formation mechanism for methyl formate (§2.2.2). In Chap. 3, I first present the design, construction, and benchmarking of a mm/submm gas-phase spectrometer (§3.2). I then present application of this spectrometer to various molecular systems (§3.3), namely attempts to measure methanol photodissociation BRs, and dedicated spectral studies of its dissociation products. In Chap. 4, I present astronomical observations performed by the Widicus Xxxxxx re- search group, and the tentative detection of methoxy in a number of broadband line surveys at λ ≈ 1.2 mm.