Country Wife (New Mermaid Anthology)

by William Wycherley (Author), John Dixon Hunt (Editor)

• Used

  Paperback
  1973

  $3.25

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.25

  Restoration era London: Puritan laws and censorship laws are repealed; theatres re-open; and the cosmopolitan wives are living it up with extravagance, infidelity and impertinence towards their cuckold husbands.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...