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=Marriage and Courtship = Citations: "The Pleasures of Matrimony -Folger Shakespeare Library." //-Folger Shakespeare Library//. Web. 30 Sept. 2011. .
 * 1) Children cannot act on their own behalf since they are their parents' property. Secret marriages can be made invalid by the church, if they are done without parental consent.
 * 2) Love and Courtship set forms of expressions for imitation. It sets a background of culture hundreds of years ago that can still be recognized today.
 * 3) A man goes into the church and instead of paying attention to the minister, he is looking for suitable wives, about 3 or 4 who he thinks are the best. He then finds out all the things to know about them like their names, their wealth/social status, and where they live. Based on the information he gains he will pick the one he likes the most and will continue to get to know the person and soon ask for her hand in marriage. (#1,2,3) []
 * 4) A belief is that girls marry young, an average age to get married is quite old, around middle twenties
 * 5) If two people married young then they have to be kept in check to prove that they are responsible enough to stay married and are not immature. (#4,5) []

Best, Michael. "Policy on Quality Content." Internet Shakespeare Editions, University of Victoria, 2010. .

__**Pick- up lines**__ - Shall I compare thee to a brick outhouse? - You are a flame of beauty - Give me a naked Lady in a net of gold - Your fingers are made to quaver on a lure, your arms to hang about a ladies neck

__**Facts**__: - Most girls were married at 14 or 15. - Men, especially young men were almost encouraged to be fickle, they seem to be constantly falling in and out of love. - All the mothers would choose a man who was attractive and had a suitable position in society for their daughter. Citations: "Pickup Lines Used By Shakespeare." //Welcome to Cloudnet!// Web. 30 Sept. 2011. .

Love During Shakespeare's Time :: Society Shakespeare Love Marriage." //Free Essays, Term Papers, Research Paper, and Book Report//. Web. 30 Sept. 2011. .

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1. there are two parts in committing yourself to someone first the couple just bind themselves by word with then marriage and then take an oath. @http://www.folger.edu/documents/marriagenew.pdf (for #1) 2. the husbands own the wives they are their property 3. then marriage means time to take charge of your own home 4. widows are entitled to 1/3 of their husbands estates 5. widows can own their own property and houses @http://elizabethan.org/compendium/10.html (for # 2,3,4,5) 6. the bride has to promise to obey the husband as they live together. 7. the husbands role was head of the household, to give moral direction to wife and children. 8. kids married young for example shakespeare married at age 18 to anne hathaway when she was 26 9. marriages havent changed that much they have the same concept 10. sometimes men and women have there parents chose who they marry.

Best, Michael. "Policy on Quality Content." Internet Shakespeare Editions, University of Victoria, 2010. .

John Fitzherbert //(A Book of Husbandry,// 1525) offers this advice: > > And to ordain [organize] corn and malt to the mill, to bake and brew withal when need is. . . Thou must make butter and cheese when thou may; serve thy swine, both morning and evening, and give thy pullen [fowl] meat in the morning, and when time of the year cometh, thou must take heed how thy hen, ducks and geese do lay, and to gather up their eggs; and when they wax broody to set them thereas no beasts, swine or other vermin hurt them. . .”
 * 1) “When thou art up and ready, then first sweep thy house, dress up thy dish-board, and set all things in good order within thy house; milk thy kine [cows], feed thy calves, sile [strain] up thy milk, take up thy children and array them, and provide for thy husband's breakfast, dinner, supper, and for thy children and servants, and take thy part with them.

2. Marriage was a religious, economic, and practical necessity. In the nobility, it was a major means of increasing [|capital*]; and in the middle class, each partner contributed significantly to the household economy. The ceremony itself was not so different from today, except that the bride promised to [|obey*] her husband, and did not usually wear white. [|Rings*] were exchanged. The bride was sometimes decked with ears of wheat to symbolize Ceres, goddess of fertility. At the end of the wedding there was a toast in sweet wine--or ale for the less wealthy.

3. The husband, in the accepted role as head of the household, gives moral direction to his wife and children--who sit obediently listening.The wife's subordinate status was based on religious conceptions of hierarchy. //[|The Book of Common Prayer]// directs the priest to read, to the newly married pair, a homily which quotes the well-known passage of St. Paul (Ephesians, 5: 22-5): Ye women, submit your selves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the wife's head, even as Christ is the head of the Church, and he is the saviour of the whole body. Therefore as the Church in congregation is subject unto Christ: so likewise let the wives be in subjection unto their own husbands in all things. 4. After children had been nursed (not by their mother), they were sent to another noble house to be trained for noble behavior. It was like sending them to boarding school. Middle- or lower class families kept their children at home, but employed them in business or home duties. Citation: Best, Michael. "Policy on Quality Content." Internet Shakespeare Editions, University of Victoria, 2010. . (only 4 facts because of repetition and limited resources)

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