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Courtships, Marriage Customs, and Shakespeare's Comedies /

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Loreen L. Giese's study of over 5000 important folios of court depositions contemporary with Shakespeare's plays demonstrates the complex ways those plays participate in and comment upon their culture, rather than stand apart from it. Both the court records and the plays present women as a...

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Main Author: Giese, Loreen L. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Subjects:
Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Gender Studies.
Poetry and Poetics.
British literature.
Gender expression.
Gender identity.
Literature, Modern.
Poetry.
Sex (Psychology)
Sociology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Loreen L. Giese's study of over 5000 important folios of court depositions contemporary with Shakespeare's plays demonstrates the complex ways those plays participate in and comment upon their culture, rather than stand apart from it. Both the court records and the plays present women as agents who are capable of challenging their traditional roles.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XIII, 217 pages)
ISBN:9781137095169
DOI:10.1007/978-1-137-09516-9