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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... concerning findings of illegitimacy.20 Numerous litigants began Chancery cross-pleadings to block common law actions, while some opponents of particularly the newer prerogative courts played on jurisdictional differ- ences for political ...
... concerning findings of illegitimacy.20 Numerous litigants began Chancery cross-pleadings to block common law actions, while some opponents of particularly the newer prerogative courts played on jurisdictional differ- ences for political ...
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... concerning the abuses of wardship would distort the issues involved. We must consider also the widely accepted social practice of sending adolescent children away from home to live in other households for education or training. So, in ...
... concerning the abuses of wardship would distort the issues involved. We must consider also the widely accepted social practice of sending adolescent children away from home to live in other households for education or training. So, in ...
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... 4 were very often vitally linked with the issues taken up in our final chapter concerning widows and the aftermath of marriages.29 Other sorts of interaction or reciprocity will be seen between 10 shakespeare, law, and marriage OUR ...
... 4 were very often vitally linked with the issues taken up in our final chapter concerning widows and the aftermath of marriages.29 Other sorts of interaction or reciprocity will be seen between 10 shakespeare, law, and marriage OUR ...
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... chapter, or to marriage breakdown as discussed in chapter 8. That chapter, concerning separation or divorce, and the following chapter 9, considering widowhood and orphans , treat the ending of marriages Introduction 11.
... chapter, or to marriage breakdown as discussed in chapter 8. That chapter, concerning separation or divorce, and the following chapter 9, considering widowhood and orphans , treat the ending of marriages Introduction 11.
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... concerning the laws of divorce. In our conclusion we will offer an assessment of Shakespeare's character- istically complex modes of treating issues arising from the law concerning marriage. But first it is necessary to set out and ...
... concerning the laws of divorce. In our conclusion we will offer an assessment of Shakespeare's character- istically complex modes of treating issues arising from the law concerning marriage. But first it is necessary to set out and ...
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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