The Shakespearean Marriage: Merry Wives and Heavy Husbands

by Lisa Hopkins

Book Overview

Marriage features to a greater or lesser extent in virtually every play Shakespeare wrote - as the festive end of comedy, as the link across the cycles of the history plays, as a marker of the difference between his own society and that depicted in the Roman plays, and, all too often, as the starting-point for the tragedies. Situating his representations of marriage firmly within the ideologies and practices of Renaissance culture, Lisa Hopkins argues...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349396125
• ISBN13: 9781349396122
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"