Frankford invites Wendoll into his home and tells him that anything in his house is his. Wendoll then chooses to pursue Frankford's wife. Sir Charles Mountford attempts to prostitute his sister to Sir Francis Acton, to whom he is deeply in debt. Two women fight for their emotional survival in a world dominated by men, money and an unbending morality.

The most studied of Thomas Heywood's plays, A Woman Killed With Kindness explores the boundaries of marital punishment and the moral weight of mercy. This major new edition of this startling domestic tragedy offers the standard, depth and range associated with all Arden editions. The on-page commentary notes explain the language, references and staging issues posed by the text while the lengthy, illustrated introduction offers a lively overview of the play's historical, performance and critical contexts. This is the ideal edition for study and performance.

The royal king, and loyal subject. A woman killed with kindness by Thomas Heywood. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1850 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.

A Woman Killed with Kindness is an early seventeenth-century stage play, a tragedy written by Thomas Heywood. Acted in 1603 and first published in 1607, the play has generally been considered Heywood's masterpiece, and has received the most critical attention among Heywood's works. Along with the anonymous Arden of Faversham, Heywood's play has been regarded as the apex of Renaissance drama's achievement in the subgenre of bourgeois or domestic tragedy. The play was originally performed by Worcester's Men, the company for which Heywood acted and wrote in the early Jacobean era. The records of...