{"id":70,"date":"2017-06-02T12:45:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T17:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/?post_type=publication&#038;p=70"},"modified":"2017-06-02T12:47:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T17:47:41","slug":"broken-lutes-and-passionate-bodies-in-a-woman-killed-with-kindness","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/publication\/broken-lutes-and-passionate-bodies-in-a-woman-killed-with-kindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken Lutes and Passionate Bodies in A Woman Killed with Kindness"},"featured_media":0,"template":"","publication-type":[4],"class_list":["post-70","publication","type-publication","status-publish","hentry","publication-type-article"],"cmb2":{"buppl_pub_metabox":{"buppl_pub_date":"1443657600","buppl_pub_authors":["Smid, Deanna"],"buppl_pub_editors":"","buppl_pub_source":"Renaissance and Reformation","buppl_pub_source_url":"","buppl_pub_source_local_url":"","buppl_pub_source_local_url_id":"","buppl_pub_source_volume":"38","buppl_pub_source_issue":"2","buppl_pub_source_page_numbers":"93-120","buppl_pub_abstract":"Thomas Heywood\u2019s 1607 play, <em>A Woman Killed with Kindness, <\/em>ends with the protagonist, Frankford, discovering the lute of Anne, the wife he has just banished for adultery. Grieved by the sight of the instrument that he conflates with his marriage and with Anne herself, Frankford exiles the lute along with his wife. When she receives the instrument, Anne plays a lament, then directs her coachman to \u201cgo break this lute upon my coach\u2019s wheel, \/ As the last music that I e\u2019er shall make\u201d (16.69\u201370). Shortly following the destruction of the lute, Anne dies. Anne\u2019s body and memory, clearly, are inextricably linked to the lute: in the drama, her body is a musical instrument that she can play, that can be played upon, and that can be destroyed. The lute as body metaphor is a common image in early modern English literature, and Heywood both uses and complicates the metaphor. The lute, first, demonstrates Anne\u2019s impossible and paradoxical identity as a chaste wife, noblewoman, and possible prostitute. Moreover, the lute emphasizes Anne\u2019s powerlessness over her own body, particularly her humours.\u00a0 Like other characters in the play, Anne had let her bodily passions control her, but when she breaks the lute, she breaks also her passions\u2019 power over herself and others. Yet when she destroys the lute, she does not abandon music altogether, for music can bring about powerful social harmony. Instead, she plays her own body as a musical instrument, which makes her self-slaughter instructive rather than destructive. Her death is didactic for the audience\u2014both onstage and in the theatre\u2014that gathers around her deathbed, and suggests a variety of means of controlling the passions, some of them more deadly than others. In <em>A Woman Killed with Kindness<\/em>, Anne\u2019s music is an exemplar of the extraordinary efforts necessary to quell the unruly passions that cause so much of the conflict in the play.","buppl_pub_city":"","buppl_pub_publisher":"","buppl_pub_publisher_url":""},"buppl_pub_coauthor_metabox":{"buppl_pub_coauthors":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication-type?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}