Shakespeare, Law, and MarriageCambridge University Press, 2003/12/08 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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... Elizabethan society, but many aspects of marriage were controversial, and the law relating to marriage was uncertain and confusing, leading to bitter disagree- ments over the proper modes for marriage choice and conduct. The authors ...
... Elizabethan society, but many aspects of marriage were controversial, and the law relating to marriage was uncertain and confusing, leading to bitter disagree- ments over the proper modes for marriage choice and conduct. The authors ...
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... Elizabethan drama also focused a great deal of attention on complex , often legal , issues surrounding contemporary marriage . So the subject of the present study - Shakespeare , law , and marriage - is a large one . Before turning to ...
... Elizabethan drama also focused a great deal of attention on complex , often legal , issues surrounding contemporary marriage . So the subject of the present study - Shakespeare , law , and marriage - is a large one . Before turning to ...
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... Elizabethan marriage, may seem extremely alien today. Indeed, today many people are unfamiliar with even our contemporary laws of marriage. Every year a new group of law students respond with astonishment and disbelief when they learn ...
... Elizabethan marriage, may seem extremely alien today. Indeed, today many people are unfamiliar with even our contemporary laws of marriage. Every year a new group of law students respond with astonishment and disbelief when they learn ...
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... Elizabethan population of about four million persons were involved in over one million legal actions every year!2 Some of these court actions were collusive, using fictitious disagreements to get on record previously agreed matters, as ...
... Elizabethan population of about four million persons were involved in over one million legal actions every year!2 Some of these court actions were collusive, using fictitious disagreements to get on record previously agreed matters, as ...
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... Elizabethan landowners as fictional devices to get cases heard in Star Chamber to 'an- noy one's neighbour'8 or to gain tactical advantages in litigation in other jurisdictions,9 in Falstaff's case it seems that he actually did ...
... Elizabethan landowners as fictional devices to get cases heard in Star Chamber to 'an- noy one's neighbour'8 or to gain tactical advantages in litigation in other jurisdictions,9 in Falstaff's case it seems that he actually did ...
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the consensual model | 13 |
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 |
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