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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... of Shakespeare's age . It is our contention that the greatest dramatist of those times such matters their greatest treatment.3 gave 31 chapter 1 Making a valid marriage: the consensual model spousals 12 SHAKESPEARE , LAW , AND MARRIAGE.
... of Shakespeare's age . It is our contention that the greatest dramatist of those times such matters their greatest treatment.3 gave 31 chapter 1 Making a valid marriage: the consensual model spousals 12 SHAKESPEARE , LAW , AND MARRIAGE.
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... spousals I have heard lawyers say a contract in a chamber Per verba de presenti is absolute marriage:– Bless heaven ... spousals. Through the Duchess Webster fore- grounds a legal opinion that was relevant to such a case. Shakespeare ...
... spousals I have heard lawyers say a contract in a chamber Per verba de presenti is absolute marriage:– Bless heaven ... spousals. Through the Duchess Webster fore- grounds a legal opinion that was relevant to such a case. Shakespeare ...
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... spousals. We will reserve the term 'spousals' here to mean the act that formed the contract constituting a valid marriage.4 As we have seen, this sort of contract was made by the two consenting par- ties, and by them alone. Their ...
... spousals. We will reserve the term 'spousals' here to mean the act that formed the contract constituting a valid marriage.4 As we have seen, this sort of contract was made by the two consenting par- ties, and by them alone. Their ...
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... spousals arose from the definition of consent itself. According to Henry Swinburne's important (if not entirely reliable)Treatise of Spousals or Matrimonial Contracts, written c.1600,6 consent to marry was legally understood to be an ...
... spousals arose from the definition of consent itself. According to Henry Swinburne's important (if not entirely reliable)Treatise of Spousals or Matrimonial Contracts, written c.1600,6 consent to marry was legally understood to be an ...
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... spousal contract some further legal steps were needed to form a binding marriage , which was not true.12 However , ' pre- ' does correctly indicate that spousals were generally understood to be only part of a marriage process to be ...
... spousal contract some further legal steps were needed to form a binding marriage , which was not true.12 However , ' pre- ' does correctly indicate that spousals were generally understood to be only part of a marriage process to be ...
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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