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eBook, 1998
Current format, eBook, 1998, , All copies in use.
eBook, 1998
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This book examines gender relations in Shakespeare's England by looking at women's involvement in lawsuits in the largest courts in the land. It describes women's rights in theory and in practice, considers depictions of women in court scenes in plays, and analyzes the language and tactics women and their lawyers employed in pleadings. The book also reveals how many women went to law, how active they were, the discrimination they suffered, and the importance of the life cycle of marriage in determining their legal fortunes. An examination of different aspects of women's activities in litigation in sixteenth-century England.
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