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poet; playwright. Literary movement. Classicism. Notable works. The Country Wife; The Plain Dealer. William Wycherley (baptised 8 April 1641 – 1 January 1716) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for the plays The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer .
- poet; playwright
- Classicism
- 1641, Clive, Shropshire, England
Apr 16, 2024 · William Wycherley (born 1641—died Jan. 1, 1716, London) was an English dramatist who attempted to reconcile in his plays a personal conflict between deep-seated puritanism and an ardent physical nature. He perhaps succeeded best in The Country-Wife (1675), in which satiric comment on excessive jealousy and complacency was blended with a ...
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May 14, 2018 · Overview. One of the foremost dramatists of the Restoration period, British author William Wycherley combined irreverent social satire and complex verbal wit to create comedies of lasting interest and appeal. His comedies ridiculed the manners and morals of sophisticated ladies and gentlemen who delighted in illicit intrigue.
William Wycherly. William Wycherley ( c. 1640 – January 1, 1716) was an English dramatist of the Restoration era. He was born in England, and lived and traveled abroad most of his life. He wrote plays known for wit and sarcasm, especially evident in his most popular play, The Country Wife, which is thought to be one of the most well-written ...
May 22, 2019 · William Wycherley’s (8 April 1641 – 1 January 1716) dramatic canon consists of only four plays, and his stature in English letters depends almost entirely on a single work, The Country Wife. In his own day, The Plain-Dealer was his most popular comedy, but more recent criticism has called attention to certain problems with that…
The manuscripts Wycherley left on his deathbed to his second wife, Elizabeth Jackson, evidently lie at least in part (allegedly ‘one Moiety’ of them) behind the first volume of The Posthumous Works of William Wycherley Esq., edited by Lewis Theobald (London, 1728), if not also the second volume which Pope stepped in to edit (1729).
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Biography. PDF Cite. William Wycherley was born in Clive, a little village in Shropshire, a county in England. Like the sons of many well-to-do families, Wycherley went to France, during the...
