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The Country Wife, a1675 cuckold farce play
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The Country Wife is a Restoration comedy written in 1675 by William
Wycherley. A product of the tolerant early Restoration period, the play
reflects an ... The play is structured as a farce, driven by Horner's
secret and by a succession of ... who has married a naive country girl
in the hope that she will not know to cuckold him.
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Jul 22, 2020 — (Richard Steele commenting on a revival of The Country
Wife in 1709) Coming ... At moments like this the play feels almost like
sitting through a ... your jealous man, the greatest cuckold; your
churchman the greatest atheist; and ... makes a joke of making love
(i.e. chatting up) Sparkish's wife, Alithea, right in ...
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He spreads a rumor that he has caught a venereal disease and
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left impotent. Horner does this so that men will allow him to
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The Country Wife is a Restoration comedy written in 1675 by William
Wycherley. A product of the tolerant early Restoration period, the play
reflects an ...
WYCHERLEY, William (1640-1716). The Country-Wife, a ...
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The Country-Wife, a Comedy acted at the Theatre-Royal. London: Thomas
Dring, 1675. First edition of a notoriously bawdy Restoration comedy
with borrowings ...
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View CW from DRAMA 20b at University of California, Irvine. The Country
Wife: First staged in 1675, one of a slew of sex comedies that appeared
in that decade. ... Note the context of this terribly delivered joke:
Sparkish and a group of ladies gossiping about "the new signs in town,"
... Husband; The Country Wife; cuckold.
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William Wycherley · 2014 · Performing Arts
Yet at this moment the farce, too, wins out. The play is joyful in a
celebration of cuckoldry that 'represents, not the birth of a new and
... The County Wife will have been early in its run when it was put on
twice before royalty in January 1675. ... The two 'lodgings' meant that
the living conditions of a libertine and a cuckold were ...
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Hayden Spencer · 2018
The single play that does most to support the charge of obscenity
levelled then and ... William Wycherley, The Country Wife (1675) The
Country Wife has three ... an ignorant young country girl in the hope
that she will not know to cuckold him. ... A running joke is the way
Pinchwife's pathological jealousy always leads him ...
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May 16, 2020 — The Country Wife is a Restoration comedy written in 1675
by William Wycherley. ... The play is structured as a farce, driven by
Horners secret and by a ... a naive country girl in the hope that she
will not know to cuckold him.