The Irish princess Iseult is the adulterous lover of Tristan in the Arthurian romance and tragedy Tristan and Iseult.

A running sub-plot involves Pullman's unsuccessful love life: a string of adulterous relationships and numerous failed efforts at romance, including an attempt at speed dating.

Before the party has even begun rumors of an adulterous relationship between Ashley and Scarlett have started, and Rhett and Melanie have heard the gossip.

Admiring of Radiguet's great literary talent, Cocteau promoted his friend's works in his artistic circle and arranged for the publication by Grasset of Le Diable au corps ( a largely autobiographical story of an adulterous relationship between a married woman and a younger man ), exerting his influence to have the novel awarded the " Nouveau Monde " literary prize.

Her arrest on obscenity charges a few days before the election, for publishing an account of the alleged adulterous affair between the prominent minister, Henry Ward Beecher, and Elizabeth Tilton, added to the sensational coverage of her candidacy.

Having been vilified in the media for her support of free love, Woodhull devoted an issue of Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly ( November 2, 1872 ) to an alleged adulterous affair between Elizabeth Tilton and Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, a prominent Protestant minister in New York ( he supported female suffrage but had lectured against free love in his sermons ).

Roman sources such as Ovid state that Hylas ' father was Hercules and his mother was the nymph Melite, or that his mother was the wife of Theiodamas, whose adulterous affair with Heracles caused the war between him and her husband.

Some sources have suggested that Miguel I could be the illegitimate son from an adulterous affair between his mother, Queen Charlotte, and one of her alleged lovers.

Contact between the couple could have hidden the adulterous nature of her pregnancy by David.

They agree to an adulterous affair between themselves, so that the nobleman cuckolds the king who has cuckolded him.

Strongly autobiographical, it treats with wistful humour and deep sadness the attractions of mystical Christianity, and the irremediable conflict between adulterous love and the demands of the Christian faith.

When the sisters published an expose of an adulterous affair between Reverend Henry Ward Beecher and Elizabeth Tilton, he had the sisters arrested under laws forbidding the use of the postal service to distribute ' obscene material '– specifically citing a mangled Biblical quote Comstock found obscene – though they were later acquitted of the charges.

Kizzy is secretly taught to read and write by Missy Anne, the product of an adulterous affair between John Reynold's wife and Dr. Reynolds.

Contrasts were drawn between this welcome for the notoriously adulterous king and the Catholic bishops ' role in supporting the deposition of Charles Stewart Parnell as Irish nationalist leader because of his affair with Katherine O ' Shea.

The tragic story is of the adulterous love between the Cornish knight Tristan ( Tristram ) and the Irish princess Iseult ( Isolde, Yseult, etc .).

In that film, set in mid-19th century Venice during the Risorgimento, she played a Venetian countess torn between nationalistic feelings and an adulterous love for an officer ( played by Farley Granger ) of the occupying Austrian forces.

She awakened, he identified himself and offered her two choices: she could submit to his sexual advances and become his wife and future queen, or he would kill her and one of her slaves and place the bodies together, then claim he had caught her having adulterous sex ( see sexuality in ancient Rome for Roman attitudes toward sex ).

Lamb has, like many Thorne Smith heroes, a shrewish ( and in this case adulterous ) wife who at one point tries to murder him ( at the time he is a goldfish ).

All This and Heaven Too ( 1940 ) was the most financially successful film of Davis's career to that point, while The Letter ( 1940 ) was considered " one of the best pictures of the year " by The Hollywood Reporter, and Davis won admiration for her portrayal of an adulterous killer, a role originated by famed actress Katharine Cornell.

Based on The Three-Cornered Hat, by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, the darkly humorous story about an adulterous love triangle is one that Wolf could identify with: he had been in love with Melanie Köchert, married to his friend Heinrich Köchert, for several years.

Most striking among the stories include the countess of Cellant seeking vengeance on one lover by means of others ( part 1, story 4 ), two whores seeking to win their husbands back ( part 1, story 17 ), two brother thieves in cahoots to rob the treasures of the king of Egypt ( part 1, story 23 ), a disdained lover voluntarily choosing to live inside a cave ( part 1, story 25 ), a woman killing herself only out of fear that her good fortune will turn bad ( part 1, story 48 ), Filippo Lippi, released from slavery in Africa because of his talent as a celebrated painter ( part 1, story 50 ), a woman disdaining a man and then killing herself when he no longer pursues her ( part 2, story 16 ), an abbot making music from a chorus of pigs ( part 2, story 23 ), an adulterous lover buried alive and then saved ( part 3, story 1 ), a merchant's murder of another ( part 4, story 1 ), a case of double adultery whereby each husband cuckolds the other ( part 4, story 11 ), and two women yelling at each other after being falsely told they are hard of hearing ( part 4, story 21 ).

Adherence to the code also ruled out in advance any possibility of the film ending with Rick and Ilsa consummating their adulterous love, effectively making inevitable the ending with Rick's noble renunciation, one of Casablancas most famous scenes.

The novel also sparked several public debates, including one about its authorship, and another about the wisdom of the Princess ' decision to confess her adulterous feelings to her husband.

When Baron sued Calhoun, she named Betty Grable as one of 79 women he had adulterous relationships with.

This progress later became notorious for the Queen's adulterous trysts with her kinsman, Thomas Culpeper, though the Duke and Duchess's Grimsthorpe Castle was " one of the very few places on the route ... where Catherine Howard had not misbehaved herself ".

At that time, Ivy was trapped in a loveless marriage to Julian Crane, son of ruthless billionaire Alistair Crane ; her one joy was her son, Ethan Crane, the product of her adulterous affair with teenage love and new chief of police Sam Bennett on her wedding night.

The term originated from the 1987 film Fatal Attraction, in which one of the main characters kills her adulterous lover's daughter's pet rabbit and leaves it boiling in a pot on the stove.

However, the most significant for the development of the Arthurian legend are Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, which introduces Lancelot and his adulterous relationship with Arthur's queen ( Guinevere ), extending and popularizing the recurring theme of Arthur as a cuckold, and Perceval, the Story of the Grail, which introduces the Holy Grail and the Fisher King and which again sees Arthur having a much reduced role.

Ford also played straight dramatic roles, including an adulterous husband in both Presumed Innocent ( 1990 ) and What Lies Beneath ( 2000 ), and a recovering amnesiac in Mike Nichols ' Regarding Henry ( 1991 ).

Tydeus is depicted in black ( usual for a male ), Ismene and her fleeing lover Theoclymenus are white ( usual for females and appropriate for an adulterous male on the run ).

A friend, Bingham Smith ( Jeffrey Lynn ), advises him to end his adulterous relationships and return to Bing's law firm instead of working for the chemical business of Emily's father.

In 1990, while appearing on In the Psychiatrist's Chair ( BBC Radio ), Whitehouse claimed that Dennis Potter had been influenced by witnessing his mother engaging in adulterous sexual activity.

He says some people think homosexuals are shameless, but he thinks they are the bravest, most manly of all ( 192a ), and that many heterosexuals are adulterous men and unfaithful wives ( 191e ).

Heywood's best known plays are his domestic tragedies and comedies ( plays set among the English middle classes ); his masterpiece is generally considered to be A Woman Killed with Kindness ( acted 1603 ; printed 1607 ), a domestic tragedy about an adulterous wife, and a widely admired Plautine farce The English Traveller ( acted approximately 1627 ; printed 15 July 1633 ), which is also known for its informative " Preface ", giving Heywood an opportunity to inform the reader about his prolific creative output.

It transpired that the real culprit was Christine ’ s kindly, old neighbor Will Watts ( Robert Symonds ), a deranged psychopath who had murdered his adulterous wife decades before.

In 534 Pope John II deposed the adulterous Bishop Contumeliosus of Riez ( in Gaul ), and charged Caesarius of Arles with appointing a temporary bishop to the diocese.

During a trip to the Mojave Desert Carson breaks his leg after falling off his horse and is abandoned and left to die by Geraldine ( Rhonda Fleming ), his adulterous femme fatale wife, and his deceitful business partner Joseph Duncan ( William Lundigan ).

Charles IV swiftly divorced his adulterous wife, Blanche of Burgundy ( c. 1296 – 1326 ) ( sister of Countess Joan ), who had given him no surviving children, and who had been locked up since 1313 ; in her place, he married Marie of Luxembourg ( 1304 – 1324 ), a daughter of Emperor Henry VII ( c. 1275 – 1313 ).

In 1996 she starred in the feature film Intimate Relations alongside Julie Walters, where she played a Lolita-like girl with a crush on her mother's adulterous lover.

She appeared in movies such as Special Agent, Samson and Delilah, Paid in Full, Two Lost Worlds, and, in perhaps her best-known film role, Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, playing Miriam, the scheming, adulterous wife of Guy Haines ( Farley Granger ).

Anthony Steel, as the husband, is a jealous type who argues against her course and sues for divorce, labeling her action adulterous.

: Hunters widely sharing the meat has been seen as a costly signal of ability and research has found that good hunters have higher reproductive success and more adulterous relations even if they themselves receive no more of the hunted meat than anyone else.

" Jesus did not approve of anyone asking for a sign just for the spectacle of it, describing such as coming from a " wicked and adulterous generation.

* Archie: An ex-convict and former Confederate soldier who is imprisoned for the murder of his adulterous wife, he is taken in by Melanie and then later became Scarlett's coach driver.

Cradle Snatchers was based on a 1925 hit stage play by Russell G. Medcraft and Norma Mitchell about three unhappy, middle-aged housewives who teach their adulterous husbands a lesson by starting affairs with college-aged young men during the jazz age.

Hosea's family life reflected the " adulterous " relationship which Israel had built with polytheistic gods.

Jean showed how the unwavering trust of Jef, the faithful Pierrot prototype, transforms his scandalously adulterous wife into his idealized image of her, while Domino presented another unfaithful wife who pays a gigolo to make a pretense of courting her so as to distract her husband from her real lover, but the gigolo manages to act his character with such pretend sincerity that she winds up falling in love with this fictional persona.

Heidi, the star of the show, is insulted by Trevor ( a pornograph director ) and comes to complain to the man she loves, Bletch, who is actually in an adulterous relationship with Samantha.

The two most commonly cited examples are the last verses of the Gospel of Mark and the story of the adulterous woman in the Gospel of John.

Examples of gossip about undesired behaviour that could surface in the skits for comic effect were querulous neighbours, adulterous affairs, planters mistreating workers, domestic disputes or abuse, crooked politicians and any form of stealing or cheating experienced in the society.

The notorious adulterous behavior of Contumeliosus, Bishop of Riez in Provence, caused John to order the bishops of Gaul to confine him in a monastery.

In a protracted struggle with King Philip I of France, whom he had excommunicated for his adulterous marriage to Bertrade de Montfort, Urban II finally proved victorious.

The New York press publicised the adulterous nature of the beginning of Olivier and Leigh's relationship and questioned their ethics in not returning to England to help with the war effort.

After mulling the question over for some minutes, he replied no, despite alleged adulterous affairs.

In 1910, he resigned his position at Trinity College to protest the dismissal of a colleague because of an adulterous affair.

He is involved in an adulterous relationship with Katharine Clifton, which eventually leads to her death and the death of her husband, Geoffrey Clifton.

Rumours were rife that he was incapable of fathering a child and that the new Prince of Wales was the result of an adulterous liaison.

By all accounts, her forty-year marriage to Edward had been happy, despite his adulterous affair with her lady-in-waiting, Alice Perrers, during the latter part of it.

Like literal adultery it does include the idea of someone blinded by infatuation, in this case for an idol: ' How I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts.

E. Michael Jones in Degenerate Moderns argues that Stanley Fish was influenced by his adulterous affairs to reject classic literature that condemned adultery.