Shakespeare, Law, and Marriage

by B.J. Sokol and Mary Sokol

Book Overview

This interdisciplinary study combines legal, historical and literary approaches to the practice and theory of marriage in Shakespeare's time. It uses the history of English law and the history of the contexts of law to study a wide range of Shakespeare's plays and poems. The authors 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521024900
• ISBN13: 9780521024907
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"