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Marriage and Land Law in Shakespeare and Middleton /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison :
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Patriarchal marriage, companionate marriage
- Thwarting the enterprising patriarch: The taming of the shrew and a chaste maid in cheapside
- Absent patriarchs and present guardians: All's well that ends well and a trick to catch the old one
- Marriage against the grain of social order: Measure for measure and a mad world, my masters
- Assertive women broker themselves: the merchant of Venice and the roaring girl
- Companionate marriage: Much ado about nothing and no wit, no help like a woman's.