A Woman Killed With Kindness

Revised edition

By:

Thomas Heywood

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Paperback / softback

Series:

New Mermaids

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“Here lies she whom her husband’s kindness killed” This is the epitaph, in golden letters, Master John Frankford proposes for the tomb of his wife, Anne, who has just starved herself to death. Frankford congratulates himself on the clever means by which he has brought his wife to repentance—and got rid of her. The marriage is comfortable, if uneventful, until Frankford gives his friend Wendoll the free use of his table and purse. When Wendoll takes even more than was offered, and confesses his desperate love to Anne, a complex and tragic drama ensues. Praised as Heywood’s best play and as the best “domestic tragedy,” A Woman Killed with Kindness (1603) requires us to consider who and what the household includes and on what conditions. What are the limits of hospitality? What are the relationships between friendship and marriage, intimacy and possession? This student edition contains a fully annotated version of the playtext in modern spelling. The Introduction includes a detailed discussion of the play’s interpretation and stage history.

Author Biography:

Richard Rowland is Senior Lecturer in Drama and English at theUniversity of York. He has edited plays by Marlowe, Chapman, andJonson, and is the author of many articles and a major forthcoming bookon Thomas Heywood.

Release date NZ

September 27th, 2012

Author

Thomas Heywood

Audiences

A / AS level
General (US: Trade)
Undergraduate

Contributor

Edited by Frances E. Dolan

Edition

New edition

Illustrations

Production photographs

Pages

144

Series

New Mermaids

Dimensions

129x198x8

ISBN-13

9780713677775

Product ID

10361366

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