"I Will Be Master of What Is Mine Own": Fortune Hunters and Shrews in Early Modern London

A London divorce case from 1590 suggests that the early modern reception of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew would have been very mixed. With methods that paralleled those of Petruchio, Christopher Percy tried to "tame" his wife to force her to give up her estate and her jointure...

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Main Author: Hubbard, Eleanor (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc. 2015
In: The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2015, Volume: 46, Issue: 2, Pages: 331-358
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