This article argues that the trope of the young ward being threatened with enforced marriage by their guardian remained popular on the late seventeenth-century English stage, despite changes in the law of wardship which offered more protection to wards. It offers an overview of the changing laws of wardship in the seventeenth century and links these to representations of wardship in the work of William Shakespeare and George Wilkins on the one hand, and Thomas D’Urfey on the other. That D’Urfey continued to use, as a main driving action in his plays, the character of the greedy guardian who tries to enrich himself by infringing on the rights of his ward, is, however, less a representation of the legal situation at the time, and more a continuation of a popular, earlier-seventeenth-century trope.

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“现在您看到的世界变成了病房”：十七世纪舞台上的病房和强迫婚姻的表现

本文认为，尽管监护权法发生了变化，为监护人提供了更多保护，但由于监护人的逼迫，年轻监护人的住所在十七世纪后期仍然很受欢迎。它概述了十七世纪守卫律法的变化，并将这些与一方面在威廉·莎士比亚和乔治·威尔金斯以及另一方面在托马斯·德费里的著作中对守卫权的表现联系起来。德乌菲（D'Urfey）继续使用贪婪的监护人的性格作为其戏剧中的主要驾驶行为，他试图通过侵犯监护人的权利来充实自己，但这并不能代表该州的法律状况。时间，以及更多流行的17世纪早期的trope的延续。