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A Woman Killed With Kindness
Thomas Heywood
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Description for A Woman Killed With Kindness
Paperback. Play script, including biographical notes, textual details and information about the staging of the play. Editor(s): Scobie, Brian. Series: New Mermaids. Num Pages: 128 pages, N/A. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 148.
A main theme in early modern domestic tragedy was not marital discord as such but violent - usually unreasonably violent - behaviour on the husband's part. At a time when husbands were not only allowed but obliged to rule their families, including their wives, the definition of 'lawful and reasonable' measures of punishment were opened to debate. The marriage of John Frankford, a middling country gentleman, and his wife Anne is comfortable if uneventful, until Wendoll, an acquaintance of her husband's, confesses his passionate love to her. Anne yields to him; they are discovered. Instead of killing the two adulterers ... Read more
A main theme in early modern domestic tragedy was not marital discord as such but violent - usually unreasonably violent - behaviour on the husband's part. At a time when husbands were not only allowed but obliged to rule their families, including their wives, the definition of 'lawful and reasonable' measures of punishment were opened to debate. The marriage of John Frankford, a middling country gentleman, and his wife Anne is comfortable if uneventful, until Wendoll, an acquaintance of her husband's, confesses his passionate love to her. Anne yields to him; they are discovered. Instead of killing the two adulterers ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Series
New Mermaids
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780713666908
SKU
V9780713666908
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About Thomas Heywood
Brian Scobie is a Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds
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