Comedies

I. THE RULE OF MEN

Cranmer
  • EVE’S CURSE
  • THE LEGACY OF PAUL
    • Juan Luis Vives, Instruction of a Christian Woman (1529)
  • HOLY MATRIMONY
    • “The Form of the Solemnization of Matrimony” from The Book of Common Prayer (1559)
  • A WIFE’S DUTY
    • “An Homily of the State of Matrimony” (1563)
  • MARRIAGE AND PROPERTY
    • The Law’s Resolutions of Women’s Rights (1632)

II. CONTESTING MARRIAGE

Betrothal Ceremony
  • THE YOKE OF MATRIMONY
  • TROTH-PLIGHTING
    • The Law’s Resolutions of Women’s Rights (1632)
  • PARENTAL CONSENT
    • Juan Luis Vives, Instruction of a Christian Woman (1529)
    • George Whetstone, An Heptameron of Civil DIiscourses: Household Laws to Keep The Married in Love, Peace, and Amity (1582)
    • William Perkins, Christian Economy: Or, A Short Survey of the Right Manner of Erecting and Ordering a Family According to the Scriptures (1609)
  • THE MISERIES OF ENFORCED MARRIAGE
  • A CRUEL PATRIARCH
  • THE ANCIENT PRIVILEGE: PARENTAL CONSENT IN A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
  • LICENSE AND HOLIDAY
    • Philip Stubbes, An Anatomy of Abuses (1583)