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Widows in art. --- Widows in literature. --- Social perception. --- Widowhood --- Social representations --- Représentations sociales --- Veuvage --- History --- Histoire

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The courtship and remarriage of a rich widow was a popular motif in early modern comic theatre. Jennifer Panek brings together a wide variety of texts, from ballads and jest-books to sermons and court records, to examine the staple widow of comedy in her cultural context and to examine early modern attitudes to remarriage. She persuasively challenges the critical tendency to see the stereotype of the lusty widow as a tactic to dissuade women from second marriages, arguing instead that it was deployed to enable her suitors to regain their masculinity, under threat from the dominant, wealthier widow. The theatre, as demonstrated by Middleton, Dekker, Beaumont and Fletcher and others, was the prime purveyor of a fantasy in which a young man's sexual mastery of a widow allowed him to seize the economic opportunity she offered.

English drama --- Widows in literature. --- English drama (Comedy) --- Courtship in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Drama --- Thematology --- English literature --- anno 1600-1699 --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature

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Based on clerical ideals of female comportment and Golden Age playwrights’ fixation on questions of honor, modern scholarship, whether historical or literary, has viewed women as subjects and objects of patriarchal control. This study analyzes tensions and contradictions produced by the interplay of patriarchal norms and the realities of widows’ daily lives to demonstrate that in Castile patriarchy did not exist as a monolithic force, which rigidly enforced an ideology of female incapacity. The extensive analysis of archival documents shows widows actively engaged in their families and communities, confounding images of their reclusion and silence. Widows’ autonomy and authority were desirable attributes that did not collide with the demands of a society that recognized the contingent nature of patriarchal norms.

History of Spain --- anno 1500-1599 --- Social role --- Widowhood --- Widows in literature --- Widows --- Role, Social --- Social psychology --- Social status --- Marital status --- Women --- Life cycle, Human --- History --- History. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Social conditions --- Spain --- Social life and customs --- Role (Sociology)

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''A fine historic exploration of why marriage treatments in literary texts are transformed between the 14th and 16th centuries. . . . This volume has the power and evidence--both historic and textual--to revamp our understanding of crucial texts. .

English literature --- Marriage in literature. --- English drama --- Mysteries and miracle-plays, English --- Marriage customs and rites in literature. --- Prenuptial agreements in literature. --- Adultery in literature. --- Widows in literature. --- Antenuptial contracts in literature --- History and criticism. --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Chaucer, Jeffrey, --- Chʻiao-sou, Chieh-fu-lei, --- Chieh-fu-lei Chʻiao-sou, --- Choser, Dzheffri, --- Choser, Zheoffreĭ, --- Cosvr, Jvoffrvi, --- Tishūsar, Zhiyūfrī, --- Views on marriage. --- Adultery in literature --- Marriage customs and rites in literature --- Marriage in literature --- Mysteries and miracle plays, English --- Prenuptial agreements in literature --- Widows in literature --- History and criticism

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