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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 Elizabethan drama's achievement in the sub-genre of bourgeois or domestic tragedy.
The play was originally performed by
Queen Anne's Men, the company for which Heywood acted and wrote in the early Jacobean era. The records of
Philip Henslowe show that Heywood was paid £6 for the play in February and March of 1603. The 1607
quarto was printed by
William Jaggard for the bookseller John Hodgets. A second quarto was issued in
1617 by William Jaggard's son Isaac Jaggard.
The plot of Heywood's play derives from an italian novel by Illicini, which was translated into English and published in
The Palace of Pleasure by
William Painter (
1566).
The play tells the story of a married couple, Master Frankford and his wife Anne. Anne is caught in adultery with her lover, Wendoll; her husband punishes her not with death but with ostracism. In the end she pines away and dies, "killed with kindness."
The adulterous wife Anne Frankford is contrasted with the virtuous Susan Mountford. In the play's subplot, Sir Charles Mountford attempts to prostitute his sister Susan to Sir Francis Acton (Anne Frankford's brother), to whom he's deeply in debt. Susan, however, retains her virtue. In the end Acton discharges the debts of Mountford and marries Susan.
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