Shakespeare and Marriage
An Open Question
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12880926 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frances E Dolan (University of California, Davis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 620-634 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Literature Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1741-4113 • E-ISSN: 1741-4113 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2011.00822.x |
| OpenAlex | W1909878048 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 44 |
Marriage is a focus of conflict today, from lamentations about divorce rates to legal contests over same‐sex marriage. It was equally contested in Shakespeare’s England, even if the issues at stake were somewhat different. Recent scholarship on the history of marriage has unsettled many of the assumptions that once governed discussions of early modern marriage and its representation on the stage. It is no longer safe to assume we know what early modern marriage meant, how it felt, or what it achieved or required. This essay focuses particularly on new research on rates of marriage in early modern England, on married women’s agency, will, and work, and on same‐sex attachments. What are the implications of these new approaches for our readings of Shakespeare’s plays? Is marriage a happy ending? Is it an ending at all
Agency (philosophy · Focus (optics · Marriage law · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Psychology
The World We Have Gained
The Homoerotics of Early Modern Drama
Road to Divorce
The family, sex and marriage in England, 1500-1800
Never Married
Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800
Queer/Early/Modern
Shakespeare, Law, and Marriage
Lost Londons
Staging Domesticity
Broken Nuptials in Shakespeare's Plays
The Trials of Frances Howard
Women and Property in Early Modern England
An Ordered Society
Birth, Marriage and Death, Ritual, Religion, and the Life Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England
Putting History to the Question
Broken Nuptials in Shakespeare's Plays
Business, Pleasure, and the Domestic Economy in Heywood's a Woman Killed with Kindness
Sovereign Amity
Renaissance self-fashioning
Women and Property in Early Modern England
Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
Marriage and Love in England
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |