Framing wifely advice in Thomas Heywood's A Curtaine Lecture and Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.
| Publisher | Rice University |
| Publication | Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0039-3657 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Published | 2008-01-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | Thomas Heywood |
| Person | Works | Thomas Heywood |
| Author | n/a | Kathleen Kalpin |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | William Shakespeare |
| Person | Works | William Shakespeare |
| Related Content | Type |
| The Winter's Tale | eNotes |
| The Winter's Tale | eText |
| The Winter's Tale | Salem on Literature |
The frontispiece for Richard Brathwaite's Ar't Asleepe Husband? A Boulster Lecture depicts a husband and wife in bed together. "Why are you silent while I am talking to you?" the wife asks. "I am deaf to dogs," her husband replies. (1) This image of matrimonial discord is a representation of a curtain lecture. Curtain lectures are imaginative reconstructions of private speech between a man and a woman. Typically they appear in male-authored texts that depict a wife speaking persuasively to her husband in bed. This speech scene is most famously represented by Thomas Heywood in A...
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