Amy Sargeants compelling and meticulous study of Joseph Loseys The Servant 1963 sets the film in the context of a long tradition of fictional depictions of the masterservant relationship from Shakespeare to Cervantes Henry James Dorothy L. Sayers and P.G. Wodehouse. Sargeant points out that while many of these relationships are played for comic effect that of the young master Tony James Fox and his manservant Barrett Dirk Bogarde unfolds in a far more sinister manner with Barrett coming to domi