Adultery in early Stuart England [Elektronische Ressource] / Veronika Christine Pohlig

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• Publié par: freie_universitat_berlin
• Publié le: 01 janvier 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 36
• Langue: English
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Veronika Christine Pohlig
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Adultery in Early Stuar t
England
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Dissertation am Fachbereich
Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften
der Freien Universität Berlin
2009Erstgutachterin: Frau Prof. Dr. Sabine Schülting
Zweitgutachter: Herr Prof. Dr. Dr. Russell West-Pavlov
Datum der mündlichen Prüfung: 03.07.2009ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Firstly, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Prof. Ann Hughes, whose enlightening
undergraduate seminar at Keele University taught me the fundamentals of historic research, and
first sparked my interest in matters of gender and deviance, thus laying the basis for this project.
I wish to express my gratitude towards the Graduiertenkolleg Codierung von Gewalt im medialen
Wandel for giving me the opportunity to work with a number of amazing individuals and exchange
ideas across disciplinary boundaries, and also for providing the financial means to make travelling
in order to do research for this project possible. Special thanks goes out to the helpful staff at
Gloucestershire Archives.
Above all, I am greatly indebted to Prof. Sabine Schülting for providing the warm intellectual home
in which this project could thrive, and for blending munificent support with astute criticism. I am
most grateful to have benefited from her supervision.
I wish to extend my most heartfelt thanks to Maggie Rouse, Sabine Lucia Müller, Anja Schwarz,
Judith Luig, and to Kai Wiegandt for their insightful comments on various parts of this dissertation
in various stages, but, more importantly, for unerring support and motivation. These were also given
most generously by my brother-in-law, Matthias Pohlig , who read the manuscript with a keen
historian's eye and provided invaluable feedback at a crucial stage of its genesis. Thanks to Peter,
Jon and Sebastian for brightening cloudy days.
This dissertation could not have been written without the encouragement and unflagging support of
my family. I doubt words can convey my gratitude, most especially to my husband Joachim Pohlig:
thank you for being there and for being you.
NOTE ON THE TEXT
Quotations from printed and manuscript sources retain the original spelling, grammar and
punctuation. However, in quoting from legal manuscripts, “th” has been substituted for “y” where
appropriate and abbreviations have been spelled out. When quoting original plays, the original
subdivision into acts and scenes has been kept. Where no individual scenes were marked, a
reference to the act in which they occur has been provided. Secondary texts are consistently cited in
author-date short format in order to make the footnotes clearer and shorter, i.e. more accessible.
However, it seemed expedient that more substantial information than short citation be given for
primary texts. Therefore, full bibliographical references in original spelling are provided for
primary texts at first mention in each of the seven chapters. In subsequent occurrences titles have
been shortened and their spelling has been modernised. Table of Contents
1. INTRODUCTION______________________________________________________1______
1.1. Why Study Early Stuart Adultery....................................................................? 1 ..............
1.2. How to Study Early Stuart Adulte...............................................................................ry 7 .
1.2.1. Court Rec.........................................................................................ords 8 .................
1.2.2. Prescriptive T...............................................................................................exts 16 ....
1.2.3. Fictional Texts and Performa..................................................................nces 18 ........
2. PAPROACHING E ARLY M ODERN M ARRIAGE AND ADULTERY____________________28__
2.1. Insecurities Surrounding Marriage28 ............
2.2. Performing Marriage – Witnessing Marria.........................................................ge 34 ......
2.3. Marriage and Adultery: Norm and Transgression....................................... 37 ..................
3. N EIGHBOURHOOD I: NEIGHBOURS AS WITNESSES ___________________________44___
3.1. Neighbourhood and Neighbourliness ................................................................45 ............
3.1.1. Thou Shalt (Not) Bear (False) Witnes............................................................s 53 ......
3.2. Gossip and Sla............................................................................................nder 64 ............
3.2.1. Witnessing Gone Wrong ..........................................................................67 ..............
3.2.2. Gossip Gone Wrong ...........................................................................................74 ....
3.2.3. Sexual Reputation and the Double Standa....................................rd 83 ....................
3.2.4. Gossip, Slander and Adultery: Conclusions .................................. 86 .......................
3.3. Mocking Practices ......................................................................................87 ..................
3.3.1. Mocking the Cuckold ...............................................................90 ...........................
3.3.2. Mocking the Adulteress ......................................................................109 .................
3.3.3. Mockery and Adultery: Conclusions .......................................... 116 .........................
4. N EIGHBOURHOOD II: NEIGHBOURS AS G UESTS AND FRIENDS__________________1_19_
4.1. Cornerstones and Boundaries of Neighbourliness: Charity, Hospitality, Friendship .120.
4.2. Male Friendship Facilitates Adultery....................................................126 ......................
4.3. Male Hatred Facilitates Adultery, Female Friendship Saves Marri.............age 142 ..........
4.4. Jealousy Suspends Neighbourliness and Destroys Marriage................ 150 ......................
4.5. Friendship as a Model for Marriage? ................................................... 154 ......................
4.6. Neighbourliness v. Marital Duties: Conclusions ............................................157 .............
5. HOUSEHOLD I: SPACES OF ADULTERY___________________________________159____
5.1. Household: Enclosure or Theatre......................................................? 160 ........................
5.2. The Centre Inside: The Marital B...............................................................ed 182 .............
5.3. Thresholds I: Doors....................................................................................186 .................
5.4. Thresholds II: ...................................................................................................Walls 199 ..
5.5. Outside: Public (Outdoor) Spaces ............................................................219 ..................
5.6. Adulterous Domesticity: Conclusions ..........................................................233 ...............
6. HOUSEHOLD II: DOMESTIC AFFAIRS____________________________________237____
6.1. Domestic Hierarchie...........................................................................s 240 ......................
6.1.1. Marriage: Equality v. Hierarc....................................................hy 242 ......................
6.1.2. Husbandly Authority: Duties Before Privil..............................eges 247 ....................
6.2. Wife-Tami.........................................................................................................ng 267 .......
6.3. Husband-Tami..................................................................................ng 281 .......................
6.4. Adulterous Business: Horn of Plenty or Horn of Cuckoldry? ..........................312 ........
6.5. Conjugal Hierarchies, Household Economy, and Adultery: Conclusions ......... 331 ..........7. STAGING ADULTERY IN E ARLY STUART E NGLAND: CONCLUSIONS_______________336_
7.1. Adultery and Domestic (Gender) Hierarchies ..............................................336 ...............
7.2. What Motivated Adultery? .....................................................................342 .....................
7.3. Damage Repair - ‘Unmaking’ Adult.................................................................ery? 343 ....
7.4. (Why) Was Adultery Funny?.............................................................................346 ..........
7.5. Neighbourhood – Theatre? ............................................................................347 ..............
7.6. Adultery and Neighbourhood Hierarchies .............................................................349 .....
BIBLIOGRAPHY______________________________________________________352______
APPENDIX_________________________________________________________382_______
1. Deutsche Zusammenfassung.......................................................................382 ...................
2. Erklärung .........................................................................................................387 ...............
3. Lebenslauf................................................................................................388 ......................
1. Introduction
1.1. Why Study Early Stuart Adultery?
This study received its first impulses roughly ten y