SUMMER ONE MUCH ADO CORE Flashcards
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PATRIARCHY
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A society in which men hold power and control (pater is Latin for ‘father’)
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FEMALE HONOUR
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The Elizabethan belief that a woman’s reputation was maintained through her honesty, modesty, disobedience and chastity
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COURTLY LOVE
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A fashionable and formalised love ritual popular in the courts of Queen Elizabeth I
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DUTIFUL LOVE
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Dutiful love was represented through Elizabethan arranged marriage – when a daughter married a man of her father’s choosing out of ‘duty’ to him
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ELIZABETHAN ERA
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The Elizabethan period was the time in which England was ruled by Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603)
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MISCONCEPTION
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A view or opinion that is incorrect because based on faulty thinking or understanding
