The Country Wife (NHB Classic Plays) - Softcover

Wycherley, William

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9781854592255: The Country Wife (NHB Classic Plays)

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ISBN 10: 1854592254 ISBN 13: 9781854592255

Verlag: Nick Hern Books, 2001

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Restoration era London: Puritan laws and censorship laws are repealed; theatres re-open; and the cosmopolitan wives are living it up with extravagance, infidelity and impertinence towards their cuckold husbands. But when Margery the country wife comes to town, she arrives with strict handholding from her uptight husband and is promptly locked in a house. But then the door opens to Horner, a reputed womanizer...

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The Country Wife is shown to surpass much Restoration comedy in structural and thematic unity by counterpointing the principal's attitudes on sex and marriage. Although the plot is episodic and portrays multiple sets of lovers, Wycherley succeeds in evolving a clear dramatic line. --Seventeenth Century News

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Horner pretends to be a eunuch as a strategy to allow him free access to women. Pinchwife, unaware of Horner's pretended status, admits he has married the innocent Margery, the country wife of the title.

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