Katharine Cleland's Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England and reveals its controversial nature in the wake of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which standardized the marriage ritual for the first time.…
Katharine Cleland's Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England and reveals its controversial nature in the wake of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which standardized the marriage ritual for the first time.…
"Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England. Augmenting recent literary and historical studies of marriage, the book constitutes an examination of thepractice in a variety of poetic and dramatic genres."--
Katharine Cleland's Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England and reveals its controversial nature in the wake of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which standardized the marriage ritual for the first time.…
Katharine Cleland's Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England and reveals its controversial nature in the wake of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which standardized the marriage ritual for the first time.…
Reforming clandestine marriage in Spenser's Faerie queene, book I -- "Wanton loves and young desires": Marlowe's Hero and Leander and Chapman's Continuation -- Sacred ceremonies and private contracts in Spenser's Epithalamion and Shakespeare's A lover's complaint -- "Lorenzo and…
"Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England. Augmenting recent literary and historical studies of marriage, the book constitutes an examination of the practice in a variety of poetic and dramatic genres."--
"Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England. Augmenting recent literary and historical studies of marriage, the book constitutes an examination of the practice in a variety of poetic and dramatic genres."--