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humanodon · 3798 days ago · link · · parent · post: Lil's Book of Questions: Whither Shakespeare? Part VII - Were Young People Really So Rebellious in Shakespeare’s Time?
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.