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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Strana 9
... consent to marry, are problematised rather than propagandised by Shakespeare. Moreover, wider questions surrounding Bertram's marriage to Helena, and other resonant questions about marriage implicit in All's Well, are treated elsewhere ...
... consent to marry, are problematised rather than propagandised by Shakespeare. Moreover, wider questions surrounding Bertram's marriage to Helena, and other resonant questions about marriage implicit in All's Well, are treated elsewhere ...
Strana 10
... consent of bride and groom (as long as they were eligible to marry) made an indissoluble marriage, certainly applied. But that very simplicity brought in almost innumerable quandaries. The question of what constituted present consent ...
... consent of bride and groom (as long as they were eligible to marry) made an indissoluble marriage, certainly applied. But that very simplicity brought in almost innumerable quandaries. The question of what constituted present consent ...
Strana 11
... consent alone. How- ever, they did make such marriages illicit, and forming them was a (usually mildly) punishable offence. The complexities over this are discussed, with their many Shakespearian reflections, in chapters 5 and 6. These ...
... consent alone. How- ever, they did make such marriages illicit, and forming them was a (usually mildly) punishable offence. The complexities over this are discussed, with their many Shakespearian reflections, in chapters 5 and 6. These ...
Strana 13
... consent (by 'impediments' of incest, bigamy, or incapacity to express consent), they are then immediately and irrevocably married. In this scene Webster portrays the creation of a valid and binding mar- riage by what was known as ...
... consent (by 'impediments' of incest, bigamy, or incapacity to express consent), they are then immediately and irrevocably married. In this scene Webster portrays the creation of a valid and binding mar- riage by what was known as ...
Strana 14
... consent (expressed in the present tense) was all that was required by law to form a valid marriage. The marriage was then indissoluble and, except for arguments over evidence of spousals, incontestable. That notwithstanding, a marriage ...
... consent (expressed in the present tense) was all that was required by law to form a valid marriage. The marriage was then indissoluble and, except for arguments over evidence of spousals, incontestable. That notwithstanding, a 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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