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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... children, found that when they separated she had no rights in the family home in English law. A wife would have done.1 These students, together with many people, erroneously believe that there is such a thing as a 'common law marriage ...
... children, found that when they separated she had no rights in the family home in English law. A wife would have done.1 These students, together with many people, erroneously believe that there is such a thing as a 'common law marriage ...
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... 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 smallest to the greatest were familiar with the ...
... 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 smallest to the greatest were familiar with the ...
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... children away from home to live in other households for education or training. So, in one Shakespearian instance, the wardship of young Count Bertram is not first introduced in All's Well That Ends Well in the familiar terms of the ...
... children away from home to live in other households for education or training. So, in one Shakespearian instance, the wardship of young Count Bertram is not first introduced in All's Well That Ends Well in the familiar terms of the ...
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... ) with another party. So a longstanding consum- mated marriage, perhaps with children, could be undone by disclosure of a prior unconsummated contract . But this Act of 1540 Making a valid marriage: the consensual model 15.
... ) with another party. So a longstanding consum- mated marriage, perhaps with children, could be undone by disclosure of a prior unconsummated contract . But this Act of 1540 Making a valid marriage: the consensual model 15.
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... Children or Child ' . The Act removed from the church courts powers to dissolve such a subsequent consummated marriage , claiming to put right a source of notorious abuse . However , only eight years later this Act was repealed by 2 & 3 ...
... Children or Child ' . The Act removed from the church courts powers to dissolve such a subsequent consummated marriage , claiming to put right a source of notorious abuse . However , only eight years later this Act was repealed by 2 & 3 ...
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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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