The Lady of Pleasure

About the show

Lady Bornwell pursues courtly pleasures and spends her husband’s money; Sir Thomas tries to reform her by feigning interest in a young widow, but his scheme fails. The prospect of bankruptcy and a humiliating mistaken encounter shock Aretina into restraint. A parallel plot follows Celestina’s effort to reform Lord A’s misogyny, with a comic subplot around the scholar-turned-drunken Master Frederick.