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A Woman Killed With Kindness

Thomas Heywood author Margaret Jane Kidnie editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:21st Sep '17

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A major new edition of a canonical play with detailed on-page notes and a lengthy introduction covering its historical, performance and critical contexts.

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.

ISBN: 9781904271581

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 352g

320 pages