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

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