ENGLISH

Shakespeare, Law, and Marriage

Book information

Year
2003
ISBN
9780511062025, 9780521822633, 0521822637, 0521024900, 9780521024907
LCC
PR3069.M32 S65 2003
Open Library ID
OL22561009M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1117227 bytes)
Pages
276\274
Topic
Jurisprudence Law
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Combining legal, historical and literary approaches to the practice and theory of marriage in Shakespeare's time, this study discovers a broad range of information in a selection of Shakespeare's plays. Jerry and Mary Sokol 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 was uncertain and confusing. The Sokols' analysis reveals much about Shakespeare's age as well as his work.

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