The Shakespearean Marriage

Merry Wives and Heavy Husbands

L. Hopkins (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

219 Seiten

1997
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-333-64732-5 (ISBN)

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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.

Lisa Hopkins

Acknowledgements - Introduction: Shakespeare and Contemporary Marriage - Marriage as Comic Closure - Marriage in the Middle - What Makes a Marriage - The Fate of the Nation: Marriage in History Plays - Roman Marriage - Tragic Marriage - The Wedding of the Daughter: Marriage in the Last Plays - Conclusion - Notes - Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.12.1997
Zusatzinfo	IX, 219 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
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ISBN-10	0-333-64732-7 / 0333647327
ISBN-13	978-0-333-64732-5 / 9780333647325
Zustand	Neuware