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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... especially Andrew Lewis, Stanley Wells, David Crankshaw, Theresa Sutton, Inga-Stina Ewbank, and Fr Robert Hanson. We also wish to thank Sarah Stanton at Cambridge University Press, and an anonymous reader for the Press, for many ...
... especially Andrew Lewis, Stanley Wells, David Crankshaw, Theresa Sutton, Inga-Stina Ewbank, and Fr Robert Hanson. We also wish to thank Sarah Stanton at Cambridge University Press, and an anonymous reader for the Press, for many ...
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... especially in relation to Elizabethan marriage, may seem extremely alien today. Indeed, today many people are unfamiliar with even our contemporary laws of marriage. Every year a new group of law students respond with astonishment and ...
... especially in relation to Elizabethan marriage, may seem extremely alien today. Indeed, today many people are unfamiliar with even our contemporary laws of marriage. Every year a new group of law students respond with astonishment and ...
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... (especially for women). Many people then used pre-marital financial legal agreements. There were heated reli- gious and political controversies over the laws governing formation of valid marriages. Moreover, there was much greater ...
... (especially for women). Many people then used pre-marital financial legal agreements. There were heated reli- gious and political controversies over the laws governing formation of valid marriages. Moreover, there was much greater ...
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... especially in chapter 1, but we offer an overview here. The post-Reformation English church courts included the archdeaconry courts, the consistory courts presided over by the bishops, and the two provincial courts at Canterbury and at ...
... especially in chapter 1, but we offer an overview here. The post-Reformation English church courts included the archdeaconry courts, the consistory courts presided over by the bishops, and the two provincial courts at Canterbury and at ...
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... especially discuss some important formerly unnoted ones in Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, and particularly The Shrew and All's Well. Shakespeare's treatments of unsolemnised, clandestine, or run- away marriages are widely varied ...
... especially discuss some important formerly unnoted ones in Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, and particularly The Shrew and All's Well. Shakespeare's treatments of unsolemnised, clandestine, or run- away marriages are widely varied ...
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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