A Woman Killed With Kindness
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
New Mermaids
ISBN-10
0713666900
ISBN-13
9780713666908
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint
Methuen Drama
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 31st, 2003
Print length
128 Pages
Weight
148 grams
Dimensions
19.80 x 12.90 x 0.90 cms
Ksh 2,150.00
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Play script, including biographical notes, textual details and information about the staging of the play.
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 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 Heywood allows a scene of deathbed reconciliation to wife and husband.
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