A Woman Killed With Kindness: Revised edition

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Here lies she whom her husbands 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 repentanceand 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 Heywoods 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 plays interpretation and stage history.

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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.