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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... reasons for the great importance of the law of marriage, and indeed law in general, in everyday Elizabethan life. Observations of the litigiousness of Shakespeare's age will lead to descriptions of some of the more important ...
... reasons for the great importance of the law of marriage, and indeed law in general, in everyday Elizabethan life. Observations of the litigiousness of Shakespeare's age will lead to descriptions of some of the more important ...
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... reasons, these attempts failed.6 What could have happened had they succeeded, and Parliament had, for instance, made fornication a capital felony (as it was to be under the Commonwealth), may well have inspired the structure of ...
... reasons, these attempts failed.6 What could have happened had they succeeded, and Parliament had, for instance, made fornication a capital felony (as it was to be under the Commonwealth), may well have inspired the structure of ...
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... reasons. It was even possible for very serious charges ofpraemunire to be brought against litigants seeking to exploit inter-jurisdictional prohibitions or injunctions; such a threat arose when attacks, particularly on the prerogative ...
... reasons. It was even possible for very serious charges ofpraemunire to be brought against litigants seeking to exploit inter-jurisdictional prohibitions or injunctions; such a threat arose when attacks, particularly on the prerogative ...
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... reasons for including this precis ofour detailed arguments elsewhere are two. For one, the notion that equity, as ... reason that makes condign here some consideration of the equity jurisdictions of Shakespeare's time. This is because ...
... reasons for including this precis ofour detailed arguments elsewhere are two. For one, the notion that equity, as ... reason that makes condign here some consideration of the equity jurisdictions of Shakespeare's time. This is because ...
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... reason for this can be found in two causes: the absence of any Church-required or state-required formalities for making a marriage valid, and the lack of any agreed formula of words to be used by contracting parties.23 The jurisdiction ...
... reason for this can be found in two causes: the absence of any Church-required or state-required formalities for making a marriage valid, and the lack of any agreed formula of words to be used by contracting parties.23 The jurisdiction ...
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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