{"product_id":"a-woman-killed-with-kindness-9780713666908","title":"A Woman Killed with Kindness","description":"\u003cp\u003eA main theme in early modern domestic tragedy was not marital discord\u003cbr\u003eas such but violent - usually unreasonably violent - behaviour on the\u003cbr\u003ehusband's part. At a time when husbands were not only allowed but\u003cbr\u003eobliged to rule their families, including their wives, the definition\u003cbr\u003eof 'lawful and reasonable' measures of punishment were opened to\u003cbr\u003edebate. The marriage of John Frankford, a middling country gentleman, \u003cbr\u003eand his wife Anne is comfortable if uneventful, until Wendoll, an\u003cbr\u003eacquaintance of her husband's, confesses his passionate love to her.\u003cbr\u003eAnne yields to him; they are discovered. Instead of killing the two\u003cbr\u003eadulterers on the spot - a vengeance that society would condone -\u003cbr\u003eFrankford banishes his wife from the house and their two children.\u003cbr\u003eRacked by guilt and remorse, Anne starves herself to death; but Heywood\u003cbr\u003eallows a scene of deathbed reconciliation to wife and husband.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrian Scobie is a Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Methuen Drama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52103893614866,"sku":"9780713666908","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_625f5634-537c-4fb5-b152-121f52d206fe.jpg?v=1773160101","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-woman-killed-with-kindness-9780713666908","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}