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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... seen appointing officers to arrest Falstaff for debt, the special sort of an action on the case called assumpsit was just about to become available for complaints of breach of a promise to marry. Quickly hilariously muddles her ...
... seen appointing officers to arrest Falstaff for debt, the special sort of an action on the case called assumpsit was just about to become available for complaints of breach of a promise to marry. Quickly hilariously muddles her ...
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... seen only as an agency of state power, or else as a set of professional technical 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 ...
... seen only as an agency of state power, or else as a set of professional technical 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 ...
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... seen to permeate nearly all that follows. Indeed all the chapters of this book are interactive in various ways, and some in a schematically reciprocal fashion. For example, chapter 4 on the provision of dowries concerns privately made ...
... seen to permeate nearly all that follows. Indeed all the chapters of this book are interactive in various ways, and some in a schematically reciprocal fashion. For example, chapter 4 on the provision of dowries concerns privately made ...
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... seen to be reflected in Shakespeare's plays. The extraordinary degree of autonomy theoretically available under the consensual model to eligible Elizabethan or Jacobean marriage partners (much greater than is available today) was of ...
... seen to be reflected in Shakespeare's plays. The extraordinary degree of autonomy theoretically available under the consensual model to eligible Elizabethan or Jacobean marriage partners (much greater than is available today) was of ...
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... seen as the basic building block of society.30 The issues that marriage threw up are therefore not surprisingly among the most prevalent ones reflected in the plots and structures , and also the textures and motiva- tions , of the plays ...
... seen as the basic building block of society.30 The issues that marriage threw up are therefore not surprisingly among the most prevalent ones reflected in the plots and structures , and also the textures and motiva- tions , of the plays ...
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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