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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... chapter 1, but we offer an overview here. The post-Reformation English church courts included the archdeaconry courts, the consistory courts presided over by the bishops, and the two provincial courts at Canterbury and at York which ...
... chapter 1, but we offer an overview here. The post-Reformation English church courts included the archdeaconry courts, the consistory courts presided over by the bishops, and the two provincial courts at Canterbury and at York which ...
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... chapters follow, in mainly serial order, the chronological stages of a marriage, from courtship, through valid ... chapter 3 we will discuss the legal institution of wardship in relation to early modern arranged marriages. In this ...
... chapters follow, in mainly serial order, the chronological stages of a marriage, from courtship, through valid ... chapter 3 we will discuss the legal institution of wardship in relation to early modern arranged marriages. In this ...
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... chapters Finally, it may be useful to indicate some of the contents of and connections between our nine chapters. In chapter 1 we begin, as we think a book on law and marriage must, with topics surrounding the logically prior question ...
... chapters Finally, it may be useful to indicate some of the contents of and connections between our nine chapters. In chapter 1 we begin, as we think a book on law and marriage must, with topics surrounding the logically prior question ...
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... chapter 2, which concerns family pressures on marriage choices, and chapter 3, which concerns the legal imposition of certain kinds of marriage, and between both of these chapters and the financial matters surrounding marriage formation ...
... chapter 2, which concerns family pressures on marriage choices, and chapter 3, which concerns the legal imposition of certain kinds of marriage, and between both of these chapters and the financial matters surrounding marriage formation ...
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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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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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