A Woman Killed With Kindness (New Mermaids) - Softcover

Heywood, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0713666900 ISBN 13: 9780713666908

Verlag: Methuen Drama, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Heywood Thomas Scobie Brian

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Reseña del editor:

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.

Biografía del autor:

Brian Scobie is a Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds

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• Verlag: Methuen Drama
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0713666900
• ISBN 13: 9780713666908
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
• Herausgeber: Scobie Brian