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 10
... contract by the present mutual 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 ...
... contract by the present mutual 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 ...
Strana 13
... contract in a chamber Per verba de presenti is absolute marriage:– Bless heaven, this sacred Gordian, which let violence Never untwine. Today it is almost unbelievable that a valid marriage could have been created as informally as it ...
... contract in a chamber Per verba de presenti is absolute marriage:– Bless heaven, this sacred Gordian, which let violence Never untwine. Today it is almost unbelievable that a valid marriage could have been created as informally as it ...
Strana 14
... 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 consent (expressed in the present tense) was all that was required by law to form a valid ...
... 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 consent (expressed in the present tense) was all that was required by law to form a valid ...
Strana 15
... Contracts, written c.1600,6 consent to marry was legally understood to be an inward state, constituted by a sober and well- considered intention. No ... contract . But this Act of 1540 Making a valid marriage: the consensual model 15.
... Contracts, written c.1600,6 consent to marry was legally understood to be an inward state, constituted by a sober and well- considered intention. No ... contract . But this Act of 1540 Making a valid marriage: the consensual model 15.
Strana 16
... contract or Pre - contracts of Matrimony not consummate with bodily Knowledge ' any marriage that is made within this Church of England ... being contract and solemnised in the Face of the Church , and consummate with bodily Knowledge ...
... contract or Pre - contracts of Matrimony not consummate with bodily Knowledge ' any marriage that is made within this Church of England ... being contract and solemnised in the Face of the Church , and consummate with bodily Knowledge ...
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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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