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He was baptised on 8 April, 1641, at Whitchurch, Hampshire. He was the son of Daniel Wycherley (1617–1697) and his wife Bethia, daughter of William Shrimpton. His family was settled on a moderate estate of about £600 a year, and his father was in the business service of the Marquess of Winchester. [1] Wycherley lived during much of his ...
- 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 · William Wycherley. The Restoration comedies of the English dramatist William Wycherley (ca. 1640-1716) ridiculed the manners and morals of sophisticated ladies and gentlemen who delighted in illicit intrigue. William Wycherley was born at Clive, near Shrewsbury, Shropshire, where his father, a royalist, owned a small estate.
The Country Wife is a Restoration comedy written by William Wycherley and first performed in 1675. A product of the tolerant early Restoration period, the play reflects an aristocratic and anti- Puritan ideology, and was controversial for its sexual explicitness even in its own time. The title contains a lewd pun with regard to the first ...
- January 1675
- Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
- London
- William Wycherley
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The Plain Dealer is a Restoration comedy by William Wycherley, first performed on 11 December 1676. The play is based on Molière 's Le Misanthrope, and is generally considered Wycherley's finest work along with The Country Wife . The play was highly praised by John Dryden and John Dennis, though it was equally condemned for its obscenity by many.
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….
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