0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare studies & criticism

Buy Now

Marriage and Land Law in Shakespeare and Middleton (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,489
Discovery Miles 24 890
Marriage and Land Law in Shakespeare and Middleton (Hardcover): Nancy Mohrlock Bunker

Marriage and Land Law in Shakespeare and Middleton (Hardcover)

Nancy Mohrlock Bunker

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R2,489 Discovery Miles 24 890 | Repayment Terms: R233 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days

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.

General

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
Promotions
LSN: 1-61147-666-6
Barcode: 9781611476668

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Macbeth - No Fear Shakespeare
Spark Notes Paperback R240 R219 Discovery Miles 2 190
The Shakespeare Book
Dk Hardcover  (1)
R639 R576 Discovery Miles 5 760
Othello: No Fear Shakespeare Deluxe…
Spark Notes Paperback R318 R296 Discovery Miles 2 960
Figuring Sex between Men from…
Paul Hammond Hardcover R5,024 Discovery Miles 50 240
Determining the Shakespeare Canon…
MacDonald P. Jackson Hardcover R4,385 Discovery Miles 43 850
Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
Hugh MacKay Paperback R327 Discovery Miles 3 270
Othello: York Notes for A-level
Rebecca Warren, William Shakespeare Paperback  (1)
R243 Discovery Miles 2 430
Othello (No Fear Shakespeare)
Spark Notes Paperback R245 R226 Discovery Miles 2 260
Late Shakespeare - A New World of Words
Simon Palfrey Hardcover R6,326 Discovery Miles 63 260
Tales from Shakespear - Designed for the…
Charles Lamb Paperback R509 Discovery Miles 5 090
Shakespeare Manual
Frederick Gard Fleay Paperback R579 Discovery Miles 5 790
Shakespeare an Archer
William Lowes Rushton Paperback R387 Discovery Miles 3 870

See more

Partners