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 1
... present study - Shakespeare , law , and marriage - is a large one . Before turning to matters having specific bearing on that subject , this Introduction will outline some of the historical reasons for the great im- portance of the law ...
... present study - Shakespeare , law , and marriage - is a large one . Before turning to matters having specific bearing on that subject , this Introduction will outline some of the historical reasons for the great im- portance of the law ...
Strana 8
... presents a 'fan- tastical mooting' where impossibly complex contrived legal situations are premised. Fantastical moots may merely amuse with challenging riddles, or they may lead to instructive intellectual dead ends, aporia, intended ...
... presents a 'fan- tastical mooting' where impossibly complex contrived legal situations are premised. Fantastical moots may merely amuse with challenging riddles, or they may lead to instructive intellectual dead ends, aporia, intended ...
Strana 10
... 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 constituted present ...
... 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 constituted present ...
Strana 13
... present, and no religious rites. Her family play no part and there is no more publicity than the witnessing presence of a waiting woman. No particular formal words or ritual words are spoken. Rather, she and Antonio express, using ...
... present, and no religious rites. Her family play no part and there is no more publicity than the witnessing presence of a waiting woman. No particular formal words or ritual words are spoken. Rather, she and Antonio express, using ...
Strana 14
... present chapter will begin such an analysis at its natural starting point, by considering in detail the consensual model of marriage that al- lowed marriage formation by spousals. We will reserve the term 'spousals' here to mean the act ...
... present chapter will begin such an analysis at its natural starting point, by considering in detail the consensual model of marriage that al- lowed marriage formation by spousals. We will reserve the term 'spousals' here to mean the act ...
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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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