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Marriage and Land Law in Shakespeare and Middleton (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,639
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Marriage and Land Law in Shakespeare and Middleton (Hardcover): Nancy Mohrlock Bunker

Marriage and Land Law in Shakespeare and Middleton (Hardcover)

Nancy Mohrlock Bunker

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Marriage and Land Law in Shakespeare and Middleton examines the dynamics of early modern marriage-making, a time- honored practice that was evolving, often surreptitiously, from patriarchal control based on money and inheritance to a companionate union in which love and the couple's own agency played a role. Among early modern playwrights, the marriage plays of Shakespeare and Middleton are particularly, though not uniquely, concerned with this evolution, observing, as they do, the movement towards spousal choice determined by the couple themselves. Through the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean period, the role of the patriarch, though often compromised, remained intact: the father or guardian negotiated the financial terms. And, in a culture that was still tied to feudal practices, land law held a primary place in the bargain. Hence this study, while following the arc of changing marriage practices, focuses on the ways in which the oldest determination of status, land, affects marital decisions. Land is not a constant topic of conversation in the 21 theatrical marriages scrutinized here, but it is a persistent and omnipresent truth of family and economic life.In paired discussions of marriage plays by Shakespeare and Middleton-The Taming of the Shrew/A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, All's Well That Ends Well/A Trick To Catch the Old One, Measure for Measure/A Mad World, My Masters, The Merchant of Venice/The Roaring Girl, and Much Ado About Nothing/No Wit, No Help Like A Woman's-this study explores the attempts, maneuvers, intrigues, ruses, and schemes that marriageable characters deploy in order to control spousal choice and secure land. Special attention is given to patriarchal figures whose poor judgment exploits inheritance law weaknesses and to the lack of legal protection and hence the vulnerability of women-and men-who engage the system in unconventional ways. Investigation into the milieu of early modern patriarchal influence in marriage-making and the laws governing inheritance practices enables a fresh reading of Shakespeare's and Middleton's marriage comedies.

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Imprint: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: July 2014
First published: August 2014
Authors: Nancy Mohrlock Bunker
Dimensions: 235 x 162 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 978-1-61147-666-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare studies & criticism
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LSN: 1-61147-666-6
Barcode: 9781611476668

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