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The Country Wife: Nick Hern Books Drama Classics

Autor William Wycherley
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 sep 2001
Restoration era London: Puritan laws and censorship laws are repealed; theatres re-open; and the cosmopolitan wives are living it up with extravagance, infidelity and impertinence towards their cuckold husbands. But when Margery the country wife comes to town, she arrives with strict handholding from her uptight husband and is promptly locked in a house. But then the door opens to Horner, a reputed womanizer...
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781854592255
ISBN-10: 1854592254
Pagini: 162
Dimensiuni: 106 x 161 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.13 kg
Ediția:New ed.
Editura: NICK HERN BOOKS
Seria Nick Hern Books Drama Classics

Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Caracteristici

The introduction covers themes and context specifically relevant to students' needs.

Notă biografică

Tiffany Stern is Professor of Early Modern Drama at University College, University of Oxford, UK. She is one of the General Editors of the New Mermaid series, and she has also edited two plays in the series - Sheridan's The Rivals (2004) and Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer (2010).James Ogden is Editor of She Stoops to Conquer for the New Mermaids series and a former Senior Lecturer in English at Aberystwyth University, UK.

Cuprins

Acknowledgements Introduction About the Play Plot Genre Structure Characters Men Women Themes Original Staging Recent Performances Date and Sources The AuthorNote on the text Abbreviations Further reading The Country Wife

Descriere

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The Country Wife is a satirical comedy, which exposes the immorality of Restoration society in a way that has been both condemned and admired since it was written.

Recenzii

"The Country Wife is shown to surpass much Restoration comedy in structural and thematic unity by counterpointing the principals' attitudes on sex and marriage. Although the plot is episodic and portrays multiple sets of lovers, Wycherley succeeds in evolving a 'clear dramatic line.'"—Seventeenth-Century News