Shakespeare, Law, and MarriageCambridge University Press, 08.12.2003 This interdisciplinary study combines legal, historical and literary approaches to the practice and theory of marriage in Shakespeare's time. It uses the history of English law and the history of the contexts of law to study a wide range of Shakespeare's plays and poems. The authors approach the legal history of marriage as part of cultural history. The household was viewed as the basic unit of Elizabethan society, but many aspects of marriage were controversial, and the law relating to marriage was uncertain and confusing, leading to bitter disagreements over the proper modes for marriage choice and conduct. The authors point out numerous instances within Shakespeare's plays of the conflict over status, gender relations, property, religious belief and individual autonomy versus community control. By achieving a better understanding of these issues, the book illuminates both Shakespeare's work and his age. |
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... ceremonies, or gestures were specified) gave rise to many contentions. So, for instance, portions of As You Like It and Measure for Measure focus (lightheartedly and enigmatically respectively) on almost parodic exaggerations of such ...
... ceremonies, or gestures were specified) gave rise to many contentions. So, for instance, portions of As You Like It and Measure for Measure focus (lightheartedly and enigmatically respectively) on almost parodic exaggerations of such ...
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... ceremony and the reigning ideology taught a 'companionate' style of marriage (which was not necessarily a uniquely Protestant innovation), lack of mutual affection and/or abuses of household patriarchal power sometimes could lead to ...
... ceremony and the reigning ideology taught a 'companionate' style of marriage (which was not necessarily a uniquely Protestant innovation), lack of mutual affection and/or abuses of household patriarchal power sometimes could lead to ...
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... ceremony. Thanks to the power of spousals to form valid marriages, a remarkable autonomy (almost unimaginable today) was theoretically available to men and women in Shakespeare's England. This autonomy derived from the logic that mutual ...
... ceremony. Thanks to the power of spousals to form valid marriages, a remarkable autonomy (almost unimaginable today) was theoretically available to men and women in Shakespeare's England. This autonomy derived from the logic that mutual ...
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... ceremony nor lack of priestly blessing would invalidate such a marriage. But there were certain circumstances in which no valid contract of marriage could ever be entered into. Here a dirimentary impediment acted to prevent a valid ...
... ceremony nor lack of priestly blessing would invalidate such a marriage. But there were certain circumstances in which no valid contract of marriage could ever be entered into. Here a dirimentary impediment acted to prevent a valid ...
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Inhalt
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CHAPTER 2 Arranging marriages | 30 |
CHAPTER 3 Wardship and marriages enforced by law | 42 |
provision of dowries or marriage portions | 56 |
CHAPTER 5 The solemnisation of marriage | 73 |
irregular marriage formation | 93 |
CHAPTER 7 The effects of marriage on legal status | 117 |
separation divorce illegitimacy | 139 |
CHAPTER 9 Til death us do part | 164 |
An afterword on method | 185 |
Notes | 189 |
Bibliography | 232 |
Index | 252 |
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