In his comedies Dundo Maroje, Skup and Tripče de Utolče, Držić emphasized family and marriage, while emphasizing other motives such as stinginess, greed, and infidelity. By describing the relationship between family members, he showed a picture of the life of a Dubrovnik family in the 16th century. This paper seeks to acquaint the reader with the ways in which Držić, through these three comedies, portrayed the family and marriage of the society of that time, what role women played in Dubrovnik society and family, how marriage worked and how and why marriage took place. The comedies Skup and Dundo Maroje deal with the issue of the family in a way that depicts typical erudite characters; in one a stingy father shows no feelings for the daughter and he wants her to give for an older man just to avoid paying a dowry, and in another an equally stingy father deals with a prodigal son who does not cares about the consequences or the future. The comedy Tripče de Utolče emphasizes a marriage in which a young girl cheats on her much older husband.