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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... sometimes been made by Shakespearians be- tween legal debates, legal proposals, enacted laws, and laws enacted but not enforced. However, our aims go beyond contributing to, updating, or offering cor- rective revisions for an advancing ...
... sometimes been made by Shakespearians be- tween legal debates, legal proposals, enacted laws, and laws enacted but not enforced. However, our aims go beyond contributing to, updating, or offering cor- rective revisions for an advancing ...
Strana 4
... sometimes competitive, sometimes co-operative, some- times waning, sometimes burgeoning, sometimes conservative, and sometimes innovatory jurisdictions. Repeated attempts were made to distinguish jurisdictional boundaries, as in the ...
... sometimes competitive, sometimes co-operative, some- times waning, sometimes burgeoning, sometimes conservative, and sometimes innovatory jurisdictions. Repeated attempts were made to distinguish jurisdictional boundaries, as in the ...
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... Shakespearian marriage may be discussed in several different chapters under the headings of varied and often multiple issues. We believe that such an issue-based approach, sometimes bringing to Introduction 9 OUR STRUCTURE.
... Shakespearian marriage may be discussed in several different chapters under the headings of varied and often multiple issues. We believe that such an issue-based approach, sometimes bringing to Introduction 9 OUR STRUCTURE.
Strana 10
... sometimes bringing to bear more than one legal viewpoint on a particular text or passage, does not unnecessarily over-complicate Shakespeare's dramatic microcosms. Rather, it can reveal true intricacy, for Shakespeare's fictions and ...
... sometimes bringing to bear more than one legal viewpoint on a particular text or passage, does not unnecessarily over-complicate Shakespeare's dramatic microcosms. Rather, it can reveal true intricacy, for Shakespeare's fictions and ...
Strana 11
... sometimes could lead to violence, as discussed in this chapter, or to marriage breakdown as discussed in chapter 8. That chapter, concerning separation or divorce, and the following chapter 9, considering widowhood and orphans , treat ...
... sometimes could lead to violence, as discussed in this chapter, or to marriage breakdown as discussed in chapter 8. That chapter, concerning separation or divorce, and the following chapter 9, considering widowhood and orphans , treat ...
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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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