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The Shakespearean Marriage

Merry Wives and Heavy Husbands

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  • © 1998

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  1. Lisa Hopkins

    1. Sheffield Hallam University, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Shakespeare and Contemporary Marriage

    • Lisa Hopkins
    Pages 1-15

  3. Marriage as Comic Closure

    • Lisa Hopkins
    Pages 16-33

  4. Marriage in the Middle

    • Lisa Hopkins
    Pages 34-65

  5. What Makes a Marriage?

    • Lisa Hopkins
    Pages 66-84

  6. The Fate of the Nation: Marriage in the History Plays

    • Lisa Hopkins
    Pages 85-108

  7. Roman Marriage

    • Lisa Hopkins
    Pages 109-132

  8. Tragic Marriage

    • Lisa Hopkins
    Pages 133-160

  9. The Wedding of the Daughter: Marriage in the Last Plays

    • Lisa Hopkins
    Pages 161-187

  10. Conclusion

    • Lisa Hopkins
    Pages 188-191

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 192-219
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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.

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