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A notorious rake feins impotence to trick his way into the intimate company of married ladies in this comic masterpiece, which offers an enduring comb...
This new version of William Wycherley 's most famous classic, The Country Wife has been adapted by Tanika Gupta, one of the country 's leading playwri...
A Comedy
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The late seventeenth century playwright William Wycherley produced satirical and comic masterpieces, winning the admiration of his fellow writers, inc...
'He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.' This bawdy, hilarious, subversive and wickedly satirical drama pokes f...
A Comedy, as it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal. Written by Mr. Wycherley
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A Comedy, As It Is Acted at the Theatre-Royal. Written by Mr. Wycherley
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And The Plain Dealer
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A Comedy, as it is Acted in the Theatres
William Wycherley (1640-1716) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period. He was born at Clive, Shropshire near Shrewsbury. He spent his early...
`Mr Wycherley is universally allowed the first place among the English comic poets who have writ since Ben Jonson. His Plain-Dealer is the best comedy...
Reprint of the original, first published in 1840....
A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatres. By Mr. Wicherley [sic].
A Comedy, Acted at the Theatre-Royal. Written by Mr. Wycherley
A Comedy, Altered from Wycherley by David Garrick, Esq. Marked with the Variations of the Manager's Book, at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane
A Comedy, (altered from Wycherley) as it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane
Containing the Plain Dealer, the Country Wife, Gentleman Dancing Master, Love in a Wood
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After the restoration of King Charles II to the British throne in 1660, dramatists experienced new freedom in an age that broke from the strict morali...
A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatres. By Mr. Wicherley [sic]
'The Plain Dealer' is a comedy of no manners which attacks the double-dealing codes of Wycherly's society in all their varied guises; in the supercili...
As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal