Country Wife
Author: first_name: William
last_name: Wycherley
Language: English
Year: 1893

One of the most notorious Restoration comedies in existence, William Wycherley’s <i>The Country Wife</i> is a lively and riotous exploration of courtly and city life in the seventeenth century, which was rife with unremitting sexual intrigue and conquest. For the basis of his plot, Wycherley here borrows heavily from the work of Molière, but abandons the French master’s unity and economy by introducing several interlocking storylines and characters, all of them clamoring for attention amidst Wyc