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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Seite vii
... marriage : the consensual model I. 2. Arranging marriages 3. Wardship and marriages enforced by law page viii ix I 13 30 42 4. Financing a marriage : provision of dowries or marriage portions 5. The solemnisation of marriage 6. Clandestine ...
... marriage : the consensual model I. 2. Arranging marriages 3. Wardship and marriages enforced by law page viii ix I 13 30 42 4. Financing a marriage : provision of dowries or marriage portions 5. The solemnisation of marriage 6. Clandestine ...
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... marriage is in fact supported by his widowed mother, just the opposite of the pattern typically alleged as an abuse of wardship. The questions of his possible disparagement, and the validity of his consent to marry, are problematised ...
... marriage is in fact supported by his widowed mother, just the opposite of the pattern typically alleged as an abuse of wardship. The questions of his possible disparagement, and the validity of his consent to marry, are problematised ...
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... marriage must, with topics surrounding the logically prior question of what exactly made a legally valid marriage in Shakespeare's England. A simple rule, that the formation of a contract by the present mutual consent of bride and groom ...
... marriage must, with topics surrounding the logically prior question of what exactly made a legally valid marriage in Shakespeare's England. A simple rule, that the formation of a contract by the present mutual consent of bride and groom ...
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... marriage, and between both of these chapters and the financial matters surrounding marriage formation discussed in chapter 4. All of these com- plex connections will be seen to be reflected in Shakespeare's plays. The extraordinary ...
... marriage, and between both of these chapters and the financial matters surrounding marriage formation discussed in chapter 4. All of these com- plex connections will be seen to be reflected in Shakespeare's plays. The extraordinary ...
Seite 13
... marriage:– Bless heaven, this sacred Gordian, which let violence Never untwine. Today it is almost unbelievable that a valid marriage could have been created as informally as it was seen to be in John Webster's playThe Duchess of Malfi ...
... marriage:– Bless heaven, this sacred Gordian, which let violence Never untwine. Today it is almost unbelievable that a valid marriage could have been created as informally as it was seen to be in John Webster's playThe Duchess of Malfi ...
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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