Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations: Shakespeare titles
- Introduction
- 1 Making a valid marriage: the consensual model
- 2 Arranging marriages
- 3 Wardship and marriages enforced by law
- 4 Financing a marriage: provision of dowries or marriage portions
- 5 The solemnisation of marriage
- 6 Clandestine marriage, elopement, abduction, and rape: irregular marriage formation
- 7 The effects of marriage on legal status
- 8 Marriage breakdown: separation, divorce, illegitimacy
- 9 'Til death us do part
- An afterword on method
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations: Shakespeare titles
- Introduction
- 1 Making a valid marriage: the consensual model
- 2 Arranging marriages
- 3 Wardship and marriages enforced by law
- 4 Financing a marriage: provision of dowries or marriage portions
- 5 The solemnisation of marriage
- 6 Clandestine marriage, elopement, abduction, and rape: irregular marriage formation
- 7 The effects of marriage on legal status
- 8 Marriage breakdown: separation, divorce, illegitimacy
- 9 'Til death us do part
- An afterword on method
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Shakespeare, Law, and Marriage , pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003