The Politics of Mediterranean Marriage in Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton.

Author / Editor
Lecky, Kat.

Title
The Politics of Mediterranean Marriage in Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton.

Published
Megan Moore, ed. Gender in the Premodern Mediterranean (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 2019), pp. 203-33.

Description
Traces from Chaucer (MLT) to Shakespeare ("Othello") to Milton ("Samson Agonistes") a "literary tradition that seeks to understand England's place on [the] international stage." Identifies the economic/political models that underlie Custance's two marriages: imperial slavery in the first, "the Mediterranean’s thriving mercantile" economy in the second--with the two linked by Custance's association with boats and Alla's "strikingly Islamic name."

Contributor
Moore, Megan, ed.

Alternative Title
Gender in the Premodern Mediterranean

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale