A Woman Killed With Kindness
by Thomas Heywood

A Woman Killed With Kindness

Highlights

British

Synopsis

A main theme in early modern domestic tragedy was not marital discordas such but violent - usually unreasonably violent - behaviour on thehusband's part.

At a time when husbands were not only allowed butobliged to rule their families, including their wives, the definitionof 'lawful and reasonable' measures of punishment were opened todebate.

The marriage of John Frankford, a middling country gentleman,and his wife Anne is comfortable if uneventful, until Wendoll, anacquaintance of her husband's, confesses his passionate love to her

Anne yields to him; they are discovered.

Instead of killing the twoadulterers on the spot - a vengeance that society would condone -Frankford banishes his wife from the house and their two children

Racked by guilt and remorse, Anne starves herself to death; but Heywoodallows a scene of deathbed reconciliation to wife and husband.

Publication

Publisher
New Mermaid
Year Published
2007
ISBN 10
0713666900
ISBN 13
9780713666908
Binding
Paperback
Edition
First Edition
Print Length
128 pages
Language
English
Print
A Woman Killed With Kindness is a British play written by and published by New Mermaid in 2007. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9780713666908 and an ISBN-10 of 0713666900.
Digital
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