{"id":687835,"date":"2010-03-10T07:31:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T12:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds2.feedburner.com:\/\/4cb36718db8d433b66d7076ac151e800"},"modified":"2010-03-10T07:31:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T12:31:39","slug":"what-was-marriage-culture-like-in-shakespeares-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/687835","title":{"rendered":"What Was Marriage Culture Like In Shakespeare&#8217;s Times?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You could consider some points such as: Marriage was the only real option for women to establish themselves; it was the norm for parents to arrange marriages for their children; wives were legally subject to their husbands, and their property belonged to him also. However, in Shakespeare&#8217;s writing and some other writing of the period, there is a great respect for the idea of marriage as&nbsp; a union of like-minded people and a source of happiness and strength. Wives in Shakespeare aren&#8217;t generally doormats!<BR>&nbsp;<BR>Re: Romeo and Juliet: It&#8217;s significant that it was <EM>not<\/EM> the norm for girls to be married at 14. He is definitely emphasising how young the lovers are.<BR>&nbsp;<BR>If you put &#8220;marriage shakespeare&#8217;s time&#8221; in a search engine, you will be taken to some intersting articles and essays on this subject.<BR>&nbsp;<BR><A href=\"http:\/\/www.studyworld.com\/newsite\/ReportEssay\/literature\/Shakespeare%5CThe_institution_of_marriage_in_the_Renaissance_Period_was_both-457.htm\">www.studyworld.com<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Blurtit\/~4\/U9FvPQXYVU8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You could consider some points such as: Marriage was the only real option for women to establish themselves; it was the norm for parents to arrange marriages for their children; wives were legally subject to their husbands, and their property belonged to him also. However, in Shakespeare&#8217;s writing and some other writing of the period, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3561,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2SW7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3561"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}