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Cuckoldry See also Adultery, Faithlessness. Actaeon’s horns symbol of cuckoldry. [Medieval and Ren. Folklore: Walsh Classical, 5] metaphorical decoration for deceived husband. [Western Folklore: Jobes, 395] delivers wife to adulterer to keep promise. [Br. Lit.: Canterbury Tales, “The Franklin’s Tale”] cuckolds Leopold Bloom. [Irish Lit.: James Joyce Ulysses in Magill I, 1040] Abbie, his young wife, seduces his youngest son Eben. [Am. Drama: Eugene O’Neill Desire Under the Elms] cripple whose wife has a prolonged affair with his gamekeeper. [Br. Lit.: D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley’s Lover in Benét, 559] symbolizes adulterous betrayal by wife. [Western Folklore: Jobes, 395; Mercatante, 164] cuckolded Florentine painter; protagonist of Browning’s poem. [Art Hist.: Walsh Modern, 19–20; Br. Lit.: “Andrea del Sarto” in Norton, 778–783]
sent away while wife and preacher play. [Ger. Fairy Tale: Grimm, 333] kindly general deceived by adulterous wife and murdered. [Am. Lit.: Mourning Becomes Electra] by Tristan after May-December marriage to Isolde. [Ger. Opera: Wagner, Tristan and Isolde, Westerman, 220] his wife, Helen, was also Paris’s lover. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad] sickly pharmacist; wife’s infidelities begin on wedding night. [Span. Lit.: Fortunata and Jacinta] 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] while he is at war, his wife sleeps with David. [O.T.: II Samuel 11:6] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Collington explores the theme of cuckoldry among the unmarried adolescent characters of Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, and John Leland studies the reverse migration of teen domestic workers from city to country in fourteenth-century England. Extra-pair copulations (EPC) and cuckoldry of the social partner (the male providing parental care to the offspring of another male) is in fact much more common than once believed. When researchers presented male bluegills with phony evidence of cuckoldry, the dads slacked off on nest defense, says Bryan Neff of the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. |
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