Shakespeare's Twenty-First-Century Economics the Morality of Love and Money
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
- Publish date: 08/01/1999
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"I love you according to my bond, " says Cordelia to her father in King Lear. As the play turns out, Cordelia proves to be an exemplary and loving daughter. A bond is both a legal or financial obligation, and a connection of mutual love. How are these things connected? In As You Like It, Shakespeare describes marriage as a "blessed bond of board and bed": the emotional, religious, and sexual sides of marriage cannot be detached from its status as a legal and economic contract.
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