A Woman Killed With Kindness - Softcover

Heywood, Thomas

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9781444645194: A Woman Killed With Kindness

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ISBN 10: 1444645196 ISBN 13: 9781444645194

Publisher: Dutt Pr, 2009

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Originally published in 1897, this early play was first printed in 1607. This edition is a result of a collation of Pearson's reprint of 1907 with Collier's reproduction of the 1617 editions, as well as of his notes and of Mr Verity's text. Despite its early years this is a fascinating play of the period. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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Book Description:

A play about adultery, guilt and forgiveness. It concerns an act of sexual betrayal that precipitates, not only the collapse of a marriage, but a series of moral struggles in which every character is caught up, and which result in the suicide of the adulterous wife.

About the Author:

Frances E. Dolan is an expert on the literature and culture of England from 1500-1700 and an award-winning teacher. Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, she has also taught at Miami University, the University of Chicago, and Columbia University. Her textbook, The Taming of the Shrew: Texts and Contexts (1996), continues to be taught widely, as do the five plays she has edited. In addition, Dolan is the author of four scholarly books, most recently True Relations: Reading, Literature, and Evidence in Seventeenth-Century England (2013), as well as numerous articles in journals and collections. A former president of the Shakespeare Association of America, she has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (at the Newberry and Folger libraries), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and, most recently, the Huntington Library, where she was a Fletcher Jones Distinguished Fellow.

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