The Country Wife

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  • 288

    Pages
  • 9780521565813

    ISBN
  • 129 mm

    Width
  • 198 mm

    Height
  • 348 gram

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  • CAMBRIDGE

    Edition
  • PAPERBACK

    Binding
  • 12 DECEMBER 1996

    Publish Date
  • 13 mm

    Spine Width

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    Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended, and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will include writing in English from various genres and differing times.The Country Wife by William Wycherley is edited by Ken Bush, Denefield School, Reading

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    William Wycherley

    William Wycherley was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for the plays The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer.

    Wycherley left Oxford University and took up residence at the Inner Temple, but gave little attention to the study of law. Pleasure and the stage were his only interests. His play, Love in a Wood, was produced early in 1671 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. It was published the next year. Though Wycherley boasted of having written the play at the age of nineteen, before going to Oxford, this is probably untrue. Macaulay points to the allusions in the play to gentlemens periwigs, to guineas, to the vests which Charles ordered to be worn at court, to the Great Fire of London, etc., as showing that the comedy could not have been written the year before the author went to Oxford. However, even if the play had been written in that year, and delayed in its production till 1672, it is exactly this kind of allusion to recent events which any dramatist with an eye to freshness of colour would be certain to weave into his dialogue.

    That the writer of a play far more daring than Etheredges She Would if She Could — and far more brilliant too — should at once become the talk of the court was inevitable; equally inevitable was it that the author of the song at the end of the first act, in praise of harlots and their offspring, should attract the attention of the kings mistress, Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland. Possibly Wycherley intended this famous song as a glorification of Her Grace and her profession, for he seems to have been more delighted than surprised when, as he passed in his coach through Pall Mall, he heard her address him from her coach window as a rascal and a villain, and the son of a woman such as that mentioned in the song. His answer was perfect: Madam, you have been pleased to bestow a title on me which belongs only to the fortunate. Seeing that she received the compliment in the spirit in which it was me

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