Taming of the Shrew and England’s Heiress Protection Statute

DOI

10.2991/hss-26.2016.141How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Shakespeare, Taming of the shrew, Heiress, Protection statute.

Abstract

There are two plots in the Taming of the Shrew. In one plot, Petruchio marries then tames Kate. The main plot, however, is about Lucentio and Bianca. It too has a legal theme, since Lucentio plans to elope with Bianca. First, he uses fraud, allowing his servant Tranio negotiate for Bianca’s dowery of 20, 000 ducats. Second, Lucentio elopes with Bianca; that is, he marries the wealthy girl in secret. The scene where he does so is often overlooked, but is very important to our understanding of the relationship between law and literature.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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