'Both bodily deth and werldly shame': 'Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard' as Source for "A Woman Killed With Kindness"

A fundamental concern of Thomas Heywood's "A Woman Killed With Kindness" is the power of forgiveness, but it is insufficient to recognize that Heywood develops this theme through explicitly Christian references to corruption and pardon throughout the play. The main plot of the play al...

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Published in:Comparative drama 1989-07, Vol.23 (2), p.166-178
Main Author: Hoffman, Dean A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
17th century
Adultery
Anonymous writers. Authors
Ballads
Drama
English speaking literatures
French speaking and English speaking literatures
Great Britain. Ireland
Heywood, Thomas (1570?-1641)
History and sciences of litterature
History of literature
Killing
Literary criticism
Narrative plot
Pardons
Revenge
Soul
Stanzas
Theater
Theme
Violence against women
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Summary:A fundamental concern of Thomas Heywood's "A Woman Killed With Kindness" is the power of forgiveness, but it is insufficient to recognize that Heywood develops this theme through explicitly Christian references to corruption and pardon throughout the play. The main plot of the play also reveals a distinctive handling of an archetypal motif involving adultery, which seems to have provided Heywood the potential for deeper character development.
ISSN:0010-4078
1936-1637
1936-1637
DOI:10.1353/cdr.1989.0019