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Adultery in literature
The following works of
literature
have
adultery
and its consequences as one of their major themes. (M) and (F) stand for
adulterer
and
adulteress
respectively.
Drama
Simon Gray[?]
:
Japes[?]
(F)
Arthur Miller
:
Broken Glass[?]
(F)
Harold Pinter
:
The Homecoming[?]
(F)
William Shakespeare
:
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
(no adulterers/esses, though the plot revolves around the perception of adultery)
Hugh Whitemore[?]
:
Disposing of the Body[?]
(M,F)
Tennessee Williams
:
Baby Doll
(F)
Fiction
Kingsley Amis
:
That Uncertain Feeling[?]
(M,F)
Malcolm Bradbury[?]
:
The History Man
(M,F)
John Braine
:
The Jealous God
(M,F)
James M. Cain
:
The Postman Always Rings Twice[?]
(F)
Geoffrey Chaucer
:
The Canterbury Tales
(M,F)
Gustave Flaubert
:
Madame Bovary
(F)
Josephine Hart[?]
:
Damage
(M)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
:
The Scarlet Letter[?]
(F)
Francis Iles[?]
:
Malice Aforethought[?]
(M)
John Irving
:
The World According to Garp
(M,F)
D. H. Lawrence
:
Lady Chatterley's Lover
(F)
David Lodge
:
Thinks ...
(M)
William Somerset Maugham
:
Liza of Lambeth
(M)
Iris Murdoch
:
A Severed Head
(M,F)
Boris Pasternak
:
Doctor Zhivago
(M)
Leo Tolstoy
:
Anna Karenina
(F)
Scott Turow
:
Presumed Innocent[?]
(M)
Fay Weldon[?]
:
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil[?]
(M)
Edith Wharton
:
Ethan Frome[?]
(M)
(There are lots of famous examples still missing here. Please add to this list.)
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