Nancy Mohrlock Bunker

Marriage and Land Law in Shakespeare and Middleton

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9781611476668
• ISBN-10: 1611476666
• Artikelnr.: 40706818

Autorenporträt

Nancy Bunker is associate professor of English at Middle Georgia State College.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction: Patriarchal Marriage, Companionate Marriage
Chapter 1: Thwarting the Enterprising Patriarch: The Taming of the Shrew
and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside Chapter 2: Absent Patriarchs and Present
Guardians: All's Well That Ends Well and A Trick To Catch the Old One
Chapter 3: Marriage Against the Grain of Social Order: Measure for Measure
and A Mad World, My Masters Chapter 4: Assertive Women Broker Themselves:
The Merchant of Venice and The Roaring Girl Chapter 5: Companionate
Marriage: Much Ado About Nothing and No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's
Appendix Bibliography Index