BIBLIOGRAPHY

Girard, René. Shakespeare,los fuegos de la envidia. Barcelona: Anagrama, 1995.

Bloom, Harold.El Canon occidental. Barcelona: Anagrama, 1995.

For further reading About Individual an Social Interaction

Bains, Paul. “Subjectless Subjectivities.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature. (September 1997): 511-28.

Futher reading about Mariage and Courtship in Elisabethan Times

1. Anderson, Michael. Approaches to the History of the Western Family, 1500-1914. London: Macmillan, 1980.
2. Bell, Ilona.. Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
3. Boose, Lynda E. “The Father and the Bride in Shakespeare.” PMLA 97 (1982): 325-47.
4. Brooke, Christopher N. L. The Medieval Idea of Marriage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
5. Carlson, Eric Josef.. Marriage and the English Reformation. Cambridge, Mass: Blackwell Pub., 1994.
6. Clark, Cumberland. Shakespeare and Home Life. London: Williams & Norgate Ltd., 1935.
7. Cook, Ann Jennalie. “The Mode of Marriage in Shakespeare’s England.” Southern Humanities Review 2 (1977): 126-32.
8. Cook, Ann Jennalie. “Wooing and Wedding: Shakespeare’s Dramatic Distortion of the Customs of His Time.” Shakespeare’s Art from a Comparative Aspect. Ed. Wendell M. Aycock. Lubbock: Texas Tech Press, 1981.
9. Emmison, F.G. Elizabethan Life: Morals and the Church Courts. Chelmsford: Essex County Council, 1973.
10. Frye, Roland M. “The Teachings of Classical Puritanism on Conjugal Love.” Studies in the Renaissance 2 (1955): 148-59.
11. Furnivall, F. J, ed. Child Marriages, Divorces, and Ratifications, Etc., in the Diocese of Chester, 1561-6. London: E.E.T.S, 1897.
12. Haller, William, and Malleville. “The Puritan Art of Love.” Huntington Library Quarterly 5 (1942): 235-72.
13. Ingram, Martin. Church Courts, Sex, and Marriage in England, 1570-1640. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
14. Klein, Joan Larsen. Daughters, Wives, and Widows: Writings by Men About Women and Marriage in England,1500-1640. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.
15. Laslett, Peter. Family Life and Illicit Love in Earlier Generations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.
16. MacDonald, Michael. Bibliography on the Family from the Fields of Theology and Philosophy. Ottawa: Vanier Institute of the Family, 1964.
17. McSheffrey, Shannon, ed. Love and Marriage in Late Medieval London. Kalamazoo, Mich: Medieval Institute Publications, 1995.
18. Meader, William Granville. Courtship in Shakespeare: Its Relation to the Tradition of Courtly Love. New York: King’s Crown Press, Columbia University, 1954.
19. Powell, Chilton Latham. English Domestic Relations, 1487-1653. New York: Columbia University Press, 1917.
20. Quaife, G. R. Wanton Wenches and Wayward Wives: Peasants and Illicit Sex in Early Seventeenth Century England. London: Croom Helm, 1979.
21. Rowse, A.L.. Simon Forman: Sex and Society in Shakespeare’s Age. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1974.
22. Schanzer, Ernest. “The Marriage-Contracts in Measure for Measure.” Shakespeare Survey 13 (1960).
23. Stenton, Doris. “On the ‘Homily on Matrimony’.” Women: From the Greeks to the French Revolution. Ed. Susan G Bell. Belmont: Wadsworth, 1973. 218-20.
24. Stone, Lawrence. The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977.

Walker, Sue Sheridan.. Wife and Widow in Medieval England. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993.

Love and Marriage

It is generally considered foolish to marry for love, although love may occur in marriage.

Your parents and friends are better equipped than you are to look out for your best interests, being mature and experienced in the world. Let them negotiate and recommend and you’re much more likely to be happy in marriage.

Just because a marriage is arranged doesn’t mean you’ve never met the other person. Except among the lofty nobility, most people arrange their children’s marriages with the children of neighbors and friends.

The lower on the social scale you are, the more likely you are to have a choice in the matter.

Courtship and Courtier

A collection of anecdotes, debates, and advice: Castiglione’s Libro del Cortegiano (1528) was translated into sprightly English in 1561. It celebrates the high Renaissance culture–love as religion–in the court of the tiny dukedom of Urbino in northern Italy. According to Roger Ascham, Castiglione combined learning and delight in an ideal way:

To join learning with comely exercises, Count Baldassare Castiglione, in his book Corteginano, doth trimly teach; which book advisedly read and diligently followed but one year at home in England, would do a young gentleman more good, I wiss than three years’ travel abroad in Italy.

(More on English manners*.)

The cult of courtly love influenced poets, musicians, and artists. Sir Thomas Wyatt’s poetry, for example, celebrates both the melancholy and joy of idealized, unattainable love. His “catch,” or round “Ah Robin,”* set to music by his comtemporary William Cornyshe debates the nature of women’s constancy. As Wyatt’s poem suggests, courtly love could easily become courtly hate.

http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/society/courtier.html

Marriage in Shakespeare

http://www.william-shakespeare.info/elizabethan-wedding-customs.htm