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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... widows and 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 ...
... widows and 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 ...
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... widows,26 for the most part the costs and complexities of using equity to protect married women's property were ... widowed, or even married women. Such women are often found flourishing in quite fantastic cir- cumstances, such as in ...
... widows,26 for the most part the costs and complexities of using equity to protect married women's property were ... widowed, or even married women. Such women are often found flourishing in quite fantastic cir- cumstances, such as in ...
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... widowed mother, just the opposite of the pattern typically alleged as an abuse of wardship. The questions of his possible disparagement, and the validity of his consent to marry, are problematised rather than propagandised by ...
... widowed mother, just the opposite of the pattern typically alleged as an abuse of wardship. The questions of his possible disparagement, and the validity of his consent to marry, are problematised rather than propagandised by ...
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... widows' jointures (as they often did). For then the public law deriving from Henry VIII's momentous Statute of Uses linked pre-marital economic arrangements (often based on dowries) with the legal rights of English widows to support ...
... widows' jointures (as they often did). For then the public law deriving from Henry VIII's momentous Statute of Uses linked pre-marital economic arrangements (often based on dowries) with the legal rights of English widows to support ...
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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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