This play portrayed the proper treatment of an adulteress as brutal confinement and isolation from others to punish her and prevent the spread of her attitude.
The canny adulteress then lies atop of the tub and, her lover pleasuring her the while, instructs her hapless husband as to where he should apply his energies.
She's someone who's taken power with complete cynicism and who doesn't have any faith, who's been not only an adulteress, but an incestuous adulteress.