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William Wycherley

The Country Wife

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A classically bawdy Restoration Comedy, widely regarded as one of the filthiest and funniest plays ever written.
The City of London in the seventeenth century. Harry Horner wants to seduce as many women as possible, but he needs to convince their husbands that he's physically incapable of any such thing. Cannily, his faux impotence also allows him to sniff out and unmask those respectably virtuous ladies who secretly ache for him.
William Wycherley's The Country Wife was first performed in January 1675, by the King's Company, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
135 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2015
Publication year
2015
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  • ksagoyanhas quoted6 years ago
    A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself, and women no more than honour are compassed by bragging.
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