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CLELAND, Katharine.
2021
A “literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England, revealing its controversial nature in the wake of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which standardized the marriage ritual for the first time”. Through an examination of such works as The Faerie Queene, Othello, and The Merchant of Venice, Cleland “argues that early modern authors used clandestine marriage to explore the intersection between the self and the marriage ritual in post-Reformation England”.