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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... rules and therefore was more just or merciful than the inflexible or tyrannous strictures of law, is a misleading commonplace that has repeatedly been applied in analyses of various Shakespearian plays.24 It thereby serves as a paradigm ...
... rules and therefore was more just or merciful than the inflexible or tyrannous strictures of law, is a misleading commonplace that has repeatedly been applied in analyses of various Shakespearian plays.24 It thereby serves as a paradigm ...
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... rules, but rather that law and legal debates reflect far wider social and cultural contexts. For example, in chapter 3 we will discuss the legal institution of wardship in relation to early modern arranged marriages. In this case, a ...
... rules, but rather that law and legal debates reflect far wider social and cultural contexts. For example, in chapter 3 we will discuss the legal institution of wardship in relation to early modern arranged marriages. In this case, a ...
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... rule, that the formation of a contract by the present mutual consent of bride and groom (as long as they were eligible to marry) made an indissoluble marriage, certainly applied. But that very simplicity brought in almost innumerable ...
... rule, that the formation of a contract by the present mutual consent of bride and groom (as long as they were eligible to marry) made an indissoluble marriage, certainly applied. But that very simplicity brought in almost innumerable ...
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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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