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Cuckoldry

See also Adultery, Faithlessness.

Actaeon’s horns

symbol of cuckoldry. [Medieval and Ren. Folklore: Walsh Classical, 5]

antlers

metaphorical decoration for deceived husband. [Western Folklore: Jobes, 395]

Arveragus

delivers wife to adulterer to keep promise. [Br. Lit.: Canterbury Tales, “The Franklin’s Tale”]

Boylan, Blazes

cuckolds Leopold Bloom. [Irish Lit.: James Joyce Ulysses in Magill I, 1040]

Cabot, Ephraim

Abbie, his young wife, seduces his youngest son Eben. [Am. Drama: Eugene O’Neill Desire Under the Elms]

Chatterley, Sir Clifford

cripple whose wife has a prolonged affair with his gamekeeper. [Br. Lit.: D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley’s Lover in Benét, 559]

cuckoo

symbolizes adulterous betrayal by wife. [Western Folklore: Jobes, 395; Mercatante, 164]

del Sarto, Andrea

cuckolded Florentine painter; protagonist of Browning’s poem. [Art Hist.: Walsh Modern, 19–20; Br. Lit.: “Andrea del Sarto” in Norton, 778–783]

Hildebrand, Old

sent away while wife and preacher play. [Ger. Fairy Tale: Grimm, 333]

Mannon, Ezra

kindly general deceived by adulterous wife and murdered. [Am. Lit.: Mourning Becomes Electra]

Mark, King

by Tristan after May-December marriage to Isolde. [Ger. Opera: Wagner, Tristan and Isolde, Westerman, 220]

Menelaus

his wife, Helen, was also Paris’s lover. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad]

Rubin, Maximiliano

sickly pharmacist; wife’s infidelities begin on wedding night. [Span. Lit.: Fortunata and Jacinta]

Trusotsky

learns from his dead wife’s letters that she had numerous lovers and that he is not the father of his child. [Russ. Lit.: Dostoevsky The Eternal Husband]

Uriah the Hittite

while he is at war, his wife sleeps with David. [O.T.: II Samuel 11:6]

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His topics include looking at the sun in Troilus and Criseyde, of calendars and cuckoldry in The Merchant's Tale, poetry versus magic in The Franklin's Tale, and the iconography of St.

Telling images; Chaucer and the imagery of narrative II by Reference & Research Book News

While cuckoos do exhibit some rather bizarre reproductive strategies, cuckoldry has not been reported among cuckoos--at least not in Canada.

Growing up Cuckoo: far from being crazy, these unusual birds use ... by Peck, Mark K. / ROM Magazine

In reality, however, he was a mediocre writer but a faithful husband and reasonably diligent provider who deserved better than cuckoldry.

Tell me about your mother by Sailer, Steve / The American Conservative

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