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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... women). Many people then used pre-marital financial legal agreements. There were heated reli- gious and political controversies over the laws governing formation of valid marriages. Moreover, there was much greater awareness then in all ...
... women). Many people then used pre-marital financial legal agreements. There were heated reli- gious and political controversies over the laws governing formation of valid marriages. Moreover, there was much greater awareness then in all ...
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... women which operated to preserve some of their own property from the otherwise unlimited rights of their husbands to ... women's separate estates were upheld. Rather, they were following, or developing further, the principles upon which ...
... women which operated to preserve some of their own property from the otherwise unlimited rights of their husbands to ... women's separate estates were upheld. Rather, they were following, or developing further, the principles upon which ...
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... women from these developments were often offset by the possibilities that trusts could be used against women's interests. For although the inexpensive equity court of Requests did protect some poor widows,26 for the most part the costs ...
... women from these developments were often offset by the possibilities that trusts could be used against women's interests. For although the inexpensive equity court of Requests did protect some poor widows,26 for the most part the costs ...
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... women in Shakespeare's England. This autonomy derived from the logic that mutual consent alone was required for marriage. Yet spousals were also the starting point for what may seem an illogicality. This was that they created a wholly ...
... women in Shakespeare's England. This autonomy derived from the logic that mutual consent alone was required for marriage. Yet spousals were also the starting point for what may seem an illogicality. This was that they created a wholly ...
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... Women and Men breaking their own Promises and Faiths ... set upon Sensuality and Pleasure ' . The legislators ' good intentions had overlooked the human propensity to act on ' bodily Lust ' ; attempts at legal regulation of ' Faith and ...
... Women and Men breaking their own Promises and Faiths ... set upon Sensuality and Pleasure ' . The legislators ' good intentions had overlooked the human propensity to act on ' bodily Lust ' ; attempts at legal regulation of ' Faith and ...
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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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