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The Shakespearean marriage : merry wives and heavy husbands

Title
The Shakespearean marriage : merry wives and heavy husbands / Lisa Hopkins.
Author
Hopkins, Lisa, 1962-
Publication
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.

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Description
ix, 219 pages; 22 cm
Subject
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Knowledge and learning
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
  • 1500-1699
  • Marriage in literature
  • Literature and society > England > History > 16th century
  • Literature and society > England > History > 17th century
  • Man-woman relationships in literature
  • Married women in literature
  • Husbands in literature
  • Wives in literature
  • Manners and customs
  • customs (social concepts)
  • Learning and scholarship
  • Wives in literature
  • Husbands in literature
  • Literature and society
  • Man-woman relationships in literature
  • Manners and customs
  • Marriage in literature
  • Married women in literature
  • England
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Shakespeare and Contemporary Marriage -- 1. Marriage as Comic Closure -- 2. Marriage in the Middle -- 3. What Makes a Marriage? -- 4. The Fate of the Nation: Marriage in the History Plays -- 5. Roman Marriage -- 6. Tragic Marriage -- 7. The Wedding of the Daughter: Marriage in the Last Plays.
ISBN
  • 0312177488
  • 9780312177485
  • 0333647327
  • 9780333647325
LCCN
97023091
OCLC
  • ocm37043930
  • 37043930
  • SCSB-14645091
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library