Family Relationships in Shakespeare and the Restoration Comedy of Manners

accept affection asks attitude authority become believe better calls century character child Cited claim clear clearly comes contemporary course daughter described Dorimant doubt duty Elizabethan England English equality fact father feeling forces give happy Harriet heroines honour human husband important interest Italics John Juliet kind King Lady live London look lord lovers marriage marry Master Millamant mind Mirabel moral mother nature never obedience old age Othello parents patriarchal perhaps period person play position possess present question reason recognize regard rejects relationship respect Restoration comedy role says scene seems seen sense seventeenth Shakespeare shows situation social society speak surely talk tells thee thing Thomas thou thought tion treated true understand wants wholly wife wives woman women young youth