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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... possible. The Public Record Office, the British Library in London and at Boston Spa, and the University of London Libraries at the Senate House, the Institute for Historical Research, and the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies have ...
... possible. The Public Record Office, the British Library in London and at Boston Spa, and the University of London Libraries at the Senate House, the Institute for Historical Research, and the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies have ...
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... possible new ways of enforcing contractual undertakings. Yet, despite allegations by a number of Shakespeare scholars, the possibilities of such contractual actions were not yet widely exploited in Shakespeare's time, and so these did ...
... possible new ways of enforcing contractual undertakings. Yet, despite allegations by a number of Shakespeare scholars, the possibilities of such contractual actions were not yet widely exploited in Shakespeare's time, and so these did ...
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... possible that the relative safety of mentioning declining or near-defunct jurisdictions, which lacked the powerful sway to do him harm, rather than anachronism, led prudent Shakespeare to his choice of allusions. For example, he never ...
... possible that the relative safety of mentioning declining or near-defunct jurisdictions, which lacked the powerful sway to do him harm, rather than anachronism, led prudent Shakespeare to his choice of allusions. For example, he never ...
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... possible married women's separate estates were upheld. Rather, they were following, or developing further, the principles upon which equity had long protected trusts or uses. However, the advantages accruing to women Introduction 7.
... possible married women's separate estates were upheld. Rather, they were following, or developing further, the principles upon which equity had long protected trusts or uses. However, the advantages accruing to women Introduction 7.
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... possible disparagement, and the validity of his consent to marry, are problematised rather than propagandised by Shakespeare. Moreover, wider questions surrounding Bertram's marriage to Helena, and other resonant questions about ...
... possible disparagement, and the validity of his consent to marry, are problematised rather than propagandised by Shakespeare. Moreover, wider questions surrounding Bertram's marriage to Helena, and other resonant questions about ...
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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