CONTEXTS: THE COMEDIES

I. THE RULE OF MEN
	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
	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 DISCOURSES: 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)
III. POLICING SEX
	THE "BAWDY" COURTS UNCLEANNESS GOD’S WRATH: THE PLAGUE AND THE POX THOMAS NASHE, THE UNFORTUNATE TRAVELER (1594) CHILDREN OF SATAN: THE PURITAN CAMPAIGN MEASURE FOR MEASURE AND THE PURITANS JOHN WEBSTER, SIR THOMAS OVERBURY HIS WIFE. WITH ADDITIONS OF NEW CHARACTERS (1615) LIBERTY AND LICENSE IN VIENNA BROKEN NUPTIALS