Courtships, Marriage Customs, and Shakespeare's Comedies

Name: Courtships, Marriage Customs, and Shakespeare's Comedies
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ISBN: 9780312166045

ISBN-10: 0312166044

ISBN-13: 9780312166045

Edition: 2006

Authors: Loreen L. Giese

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Evidence found in legal and literary texts from early modern England undermines and complicates any notions of a monolithic, stable ideal of female conduct. Loreen L. Giese’s study of over 5000 important folios of court depositions contemporary with Shakespeare’s plays demonstrates the complex ways those plays participate in and comment upon their culture, rather than stand apart from it. The depositions from the Consistory Court of London for 1586-1611 and the texts of Shakespeare’s dramas represent two different kinds of evidence of how courtship and marriage, and the roles available to women within those processes, were perceived, represented, and contested. Whether in the courtroom or…

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List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 1/1/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 217
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Introduction


Consenting Adults: "In the way of marriage"


Choosing a Spouse


Determining Marital Suitability


Courting Behaviors: Talking, Tokens, and Touching


Contracting Couples: Vows, Hand Holding, and Gift Giving


Postscript: Assessing Public Fame and Mapping the Matrimonial Maze Introduction: Consenting Adults: "In the way of marriage"


Choosing a Spouse


Determining Marital Suitability


Courting Behaviors: Talking, Tokens, and Touching


Contracting Couples: Vows, Hand Holding, and Gift Giving


Postscript: Assessing Public Fame and Mapping the Matrimonial Maze