ABSTRACT
Anne Frankford is the good wife of the kindly gentleman John Frankford. The main plot of the author's domestic tragedy A Woman Killed with Kindness revolves around the duplicity of Wendoll towards his friend John Frankford and the eventual adultery between Wendoll and Frankfords wife Anne. Gradually Frankford accepts the evidence of his wife's and friend's infidelity and punishes her not by branding her an adulteress but by tormenting her with kindness and exiling her from his sight. Anne Frankford's is seduced by Wendoll who has become obsessed with her beauty. Her recent marriage to Frankford is described by everyone as a perfect union, just as both she and her husband are described as perfect people. But this perfect couple has a fatal flaw in the form of Wendoll who worms his way between them. The author concentrates as much on the psychological effects of adultery as on its moral impact.
