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MACMILLAN The Shakespearean Marriage: Merry Wives and Heavy Husbands

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This Macmillan study examines how marriage shapes Shakespeare's dramatic works across comedies, tragedies, histories and Roman plays. Lisa Hopkins situates Shakespeare's representations of marriage within Renaissance culture and ideology, arguing that the playwright anatomises marriage much as he does kingship, revealing it as fundamentally indispensable to the underpinning of society. The book explores marriage as the festive resolution of comedy, as the structural link across history play cycles, as a cultural marker distinguishing Shakespeare's own society from the Roman world depicted on stage, and as the tragic catalyst that initiates many of his darkest works. Through careful textual analysis, Hopkins uncovers how Shakespeare's complex treatment of marital bonds reflects both the anxieties and expectations of his era, making this an essential critical work for scholars of drama, Renaissance literature, and Shakespearean studies.

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Palgrave Macmillan publication providing scholarly analysis of marriage across Shakespeare's entire dramatic canon.

Lisa Hopkins examines marriage within Renaissance cultural ideologies and practices to contextualise Shakespeare's representations.

Traces marriage as a structural element linking comedies, tragedies, histories and Roman plays throughout the dramatist's work.

Explores marriage as both festive comic resolution and tragic starting-point, revealing Shakespeare's complex social commentary.

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hardcover
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Amazon UK
Release Date
08 December 1997
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04 January 2007

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