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Ripe to Be a Bride? Marriage Age in Romeo and Juliet
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| Item type | 紀要論文 / Departmental Bulletin Paper(1) | |||||||
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| 公開日 | 2014-10-03 | |||||||
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| タイトル | Ripe to Be a Bride? Marriage Age in Romeo and Juliet | |||||||
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| 主題 | Shakespeare | |||||||
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| 主題 | Marriage | |||||||
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| 主題 | Romeo and Juliet | |||||||
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| 資源タイプ識別子 | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 | |||||||
| 資源タイプ | departmental bulletin paper | |||||||
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ROSS, Emily
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| 内容記述タイプ | Abstract | |||||||
| 内容記述 | For some time, the published writings of Puritans such as Stubbes (1585), who declaimed that "little infants, in swaddling clouts, are often married by their ambitious parents and friends, when they know neither good nor evil" (Anatomie of Abuses cited in Macfarlane 1986: 134), in combination with literary instances such as Shakespeare's 13 year old Juliet, have led readers and audiences to believe that most Elizabethan women married during their early teens. It was indeed possible to do so, as the legal ages for marriage (with or without parental consent) were set at 12 years old for girls and 14 for boys (Haw 1952: 5). However, statistical studies of recorded mar riage ages show that the actual average age for marriage was approximately ten years older than the legal minimum limit (Laslett 1971: 83).1) The legal minimum ages were considered too young by some sectors of society, and attempts were made in Parliament to raise the age of consent for marriage to 15 for girls in 1563, 1604, and 1653, but the law remained unchanged (Outhwaite 1995: 7, 9, 12). Considering that these attempts to increase the minimum marriage age may have reflected public opinion, although Juliet is technically over the legal age specified in diriment impediment law at the time, she had not yet reached the age which was being recommended as the new minimum limit, so may have been considered borderline or even too young to be married. This chapter explores several contexts that may have had some influence or bearing upon Shakespeare stressing the youthfulness of Romeo and Juliet. In particular, it addresses the question of what might have induced Shakespeare to make Juliet significantly younger than her counterpar ts had been in the source works. As Romeo and Juliet was not an original story, but one with a long literary tradition, I will begin with an investigation of mar riage age in the previous versions to determine the extent to which Shakespeare reduced or inherited Juliet's age. There are several relevant factors already present in the sources, such as a focus on mar riage between children of upper class families and an Italian setting, which need to be considered. Moreover, Shakespeare might have been inspired to write about teen marriage by current events. If, on the other hand, we consider factors internal to the play itself, we may conclude that Shakespeare may have por trayed such young characters in order to accentuate the generation gap between children and their parents, or to reinforce his themes. | |||||||
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総合政策研究(JJPC) en : Journal of Policy and Culture (JJPC) 巻 19, p. 145-159, 発行日 2011-03-22 |
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| 出版者 | 中央大学総合政策学部 | |||||||
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| 収録物識別子 | 1341-7827 | |||||||
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| 権利情報 | この資料の著作権は、資料の著作者または学校法人中央大学に帰属します。著作権法が定める私的利用・引用を超える使用を希望される場合には、掲載誌発行部局へお問い合わせください。 | |||||||
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| 出版タイプ | VoR | |||||||
| 出版タイプResource | http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85 | |||||||
