The Country Wife
The Country Girl by David Garrick is a derivative play adapted from "The Country Wife" by William Wycherley. By the time David Garrick adapted "The Country Wife" into "The Country Girl", Wycherley's play was considered too raunchy and scandalous to show in theaters. In "The Country Girl" the plot and characters of "The Country Wife" are reformed to exclude elements of the play which, at the time, were considered immoral or in bad taste.