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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.
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A play about adultery, guilt and forgiveness. It concerns an act of sexual betrayal that precipitates, not only the collapse of a marriage, but a series of moral struggles in which every character is caught up, and which result in the suicide of the adulterous wife.
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Frances E. Dolan is an expert on the literature and culture of England from 1500-1700 and an award-winning teacher. Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, she has also taught at Miami University, the University of Chicago, and Columbia University. Her textbook, The Taming of the Shrew: Texts and Contexts (1996), continues to be taught widely, as do the five plays she has edited. In addition, Dolan is the author of four scholarly books, most recently True Relations: Reading, Literature, and Evidence in Seventeenth-Century England (2013), as well as numerous articles in journals and collections. A former president of the Shakespeare Association of America, she has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (at the Newberry and Folger libraries), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and, most recently, the Huntington Library, where she was a Fletcher Jones Distinguished Fellow.
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- PublisherNick Hern Books
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1848421869
- ISBN 13 9781848421868
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages128
- EditorGriffiths Trevor
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