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Cover image for book Courtships, Marriage Customs, and Shakespeare's Comedies

Courtships, Marriage Customs, and Shakespeare's Comedies

By:L. Giese
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780312166045
eText ISBN:9781137095169
Edition:0
Copyright:2006
Format:Page Fidelity

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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 agents who are capable of challenging their traditional roles.