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This is Part VII of a series of meditations on my relationship with Shakespeare. To start with Whither Shakespeare? Part I, go to my blog and scroll down.
That's interesting-- I'd never given much though to the effect of Puritanism outside of an American context. I was aware that at some point, marriage as an economic institution fell out of favor in the West, but I'd always attributed that solely to Romanticism and the rise of the Romantic notion of love influencing marriage.