Making a Match : : Courtship in Shakespeare and His Society /

Making a Match : : Courtship in Shakespeare and His Society / / Ann Jennalie Cook.

Making a Match examines the various options posed at every stage of English wooing, together with the presentation of these protocols in the plays of Shakespeare. Across the canon, wooing may command either a casual reference or a central position in the action, but no play escapes a connection of s...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Cook, Ann Jennalie,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1991
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1161
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Physical Description:1 online resource (284 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER I. Once upon a Time
  • CHAPTER II. The Age of Marriageability
  • CHAPTER III. The Social Status of Prospective Partners
  • CHAPTER IV. Parental Authority and Personal Affection
  • CHAPTER V. Agents and Go-Betweens
  • CHAPTER VI. Dowries and Jointures
  • CHAPTER VII. Formal Proposals, Public Contracts, and Proper Weddings
  • CHAPTER VIII. Secret Promises and Elopements, Broken Contracts and Divorces
  • CHAPTER IX. Courtship and Politics
  • CHAPTER X. Happily Ever After?
  • Appendixes
  • Index

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