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Marriage and Land Law in Shakespeare and Middleton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (279 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611476675
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Marriage and Land Law in Shakespeare and MiddletonDDC classification:
  • 822.33
LOC classification:
  • PR3069.M32 -- .B86 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Thwarting the Enterprising Patriarch -- 2 Absent Patriarchs and Present Guardians -- 3 Marriage Against the Grain of Social Order -- 4 Assertive Women Broker Themselves -- 5 Companionate Marriage -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: In paired discussions of marriage plays by Shakespeare and Middleton, this book explores the maneuvers that marriageable characters deploy in order to control spousal choice and secure land. Investigation into the milieu of early modern inheritance laws enables a fresh reading of Shakespeare's and Middleton's marriage comedies.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Thwarting the Enterprising Patriarch -- 2 Absent Patriarchs and Present Guardians -- 3 Marriage Against the Grain of Social Order -- 4 Assertive Women Broker Themselves -- 5 Companionate Marriage -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

In paired discussions of marriage plays by Shakespeare and Middleton, this book explores the maneuvers that marriageable characters deploy in order to control spousal choice and secure land. Investigation into the milieu of early modern inheritance laws enables a fresh reading of Shakespeare's and Middleton's marriage comedies.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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