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 that Shakespeare anatomises marriage much as he does kingship, and finds it similarly indispensable to the underpinning of society, however problematic it may be as a guarantor of personal happiness.
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Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, Don Pedro, All's Well, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, Lady Macbeth, Sir Toby, Diane Elizabeth Dreher, Love's Labour's Lost, The Winter's Tale, Don John, Janet Adelman, Anne Page, Lisa Jardine, Mistress Page, Naomi Conn Liebler, Antipholus of Syracuse, Old Capulet, Peter Smith, Richard Wilson, Stephen Greenblatt New!
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The most outstanding feature of Shakespearean comedy is its pervading obsession with marriage. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
further quotations from the play, comic closure, aristocratic marriage, marriage theory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, Don Pedro, All's Well, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, Lady Macbeth, Sir Toby, Diane Elizabeth Dreher, Love's Labour's Lost, The Winter's Tale, Don John, Janet Adelman, Anne Page, Lisa Jardine, Mistress Page, Naomi Conn Liebler, Antipholus of Syracuse, Old Capulet, Peter Smith, Richard Wilson, Stephen Greenblatt New!
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- Shakespeare's Comedies: A Guide to Criticism (Blackwell Guides to Criticism) by Emma Smith in Front Matter, page 33, and page 35
- Masculinity, Anti-semitism and Early Modern English Literature: From the Satanic to the Effeminate Jew (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World) by Matthew Biberman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Poor Women in Shakespeare by Fiona McNeill in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Privacy, Domesticity and Women in Early Modern England by Corinne S. Abate in Front Matter
- Shakespeare, Law, and Marriage by B. J. Sokol in Back Matter
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