The Country Wife (New Mermaids)

by JamesOgden (Editor), WilliamWycherley (Author)

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  Paperback
  1991

  $3.25

  Wycherley's comedy of marriage and infidelity is accompanied by a new introduction which illuminates matters of language and of dramatic and theatrical artistry for readers, theatre-goers and play-makers.

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  Restoration era London: Puritan laws and censorship laws are repealed; theatres re-open; and the cosmopolitan wives are living it up with extravagance, infidelity and impertinence towards their cuckold husbands.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

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  Hardcover
  1985

  $3.25