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Identifier	Thesis 2147
Author	Clark, Michael Robert, 1981-
Title	Marriage, tradition, and the pursuit of self-enrichment in Jacobean city comedy
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2011; *
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	The depiction of marriage in City Comedy is characterized by some striking differences from its depiction in Early Modern Romantic Comedy. In most cases, marriage is depicted in City Comedy as being of no greater importance than any other social arrangement. However, this superficial difference can be misleading. Indeed, marriage is just as crucial an arrangement in City Comedy as it is in Romantic Comedy. This can be seen in the way marriage is used in City Comedy to validate arrangements made by characters who are motivated entirely by self-interest. This self-interest constitutes a representation of increasingly predominant contemporary social changes. In The Crisis of the Aristocracy, Lawrence Stone describes the rise in prevalence of capitalistic economic practices along with the decline in legitimacy of traditional attitudes regarding the ordering of society. It is these changes that are confronted in City Comedy. As Susan Wells has observed, the playwrights seek to make sense of these changes by setting their plays within a morally flexible, festive atmosphere in which characters are free to seek after their own personal benefit. With this, we can see the centrality of marriage in that it is used to make official the arrangements negotiated within this context and, by extension, to validate a view of human relationships as primarily contractual. The plays’ suggestion is that the pursuit of self-enrichment and the freedom and autonomy it signifies are not necessarily threats to tradition or social stability. The use of the methodology of Cultural Materialism as recommended by theorist Raymond Williams is most effective in analyzing these ideological goals and the use of marriage in accomplishing them. Ultimately, the function of marriage in City Comedy provides a clear perspective from which we can understand these plays as well as the significant social changes that they dealt with.
Subject	English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism English drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism Marriage in literature
Department	Department of English
Advisor	Leonidas, Eric
Type	Text
Digital Format	applicaiton/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	804652935
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