Shakespeare, Law, and MarriageCambridge University Press, 8. 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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... attempted to make some provision for widows and children, many of them would have encountered the customary or testamentary procedures governing the disposition of property after death. In the countryside and towns, landowners from the ...
... attempted to make some provision for widows and children, many of them would have encountered the customary or testamentary procedures governing the disposition of property after death. In the countryside and towns, landowners from the ...
Strana 4
... attempts were made to distinguish jurisdictional boundaries, as in the writs Circumspecte agatis (1285) and Articuli ... attempted to remove some of their moral jurisdiction and increase the powers of the royal courts. For a variety of ...
... attempts were made to distinguish jurisdictional boundaries, as in the writs Circumspecte agatis (1285) and Articuli ... attempted to remove some of their moral jurisdiction and increase the powers of the royal courts. For a variety of ...
Strana 5
... attempt, and libel, forgery, fraud, perjury, corruption of jurors, extortion, vexatious litigation, maintenance, and fraudulent Parliamentary elections.11 (Falstaff indulged happily in almost all of these practices.) Because it did not ...
... attempt, and libel, forgery, fraud, perjury, corruption of jurors, extortion, vexatious litigation, maintenance, and fraudulent Parliamentary elections.11 (Falstaff indulged happily in almost all of these practices.) Because it did not ...
Strana 6
... attempt to clarify often-confused matters, we have recently presented a detailed historical study of this tradition in Shakespeare criticism, and of the actual events and attitudes of the times in which Shakespeare lived.21 In briefest ...
... attempt to clarify often-confused matters, we have recently presented a detailed historical study of this tradition in Shakespeare criticism, and of the actual events and attitudes of the times in which Shakespeare lived.21 In briefest ...
Strana 11
... attempts made to restrict this autonomy. The first and crucial point to grasp is that no such attempts made in Shakespeare's England ever succeeded in making invalid a marriage formed by consent alone. How- ever, they did make such ...
... attempts made to restrict this autonomy. The first and crucial point to grasp is that no such attempts made in Shakespeare's England ever succeeded in making invalid a marriage formed by consent alone. How- ever, they did make such ...
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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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