The Country Wife (Regents Restoration drama)

by WilliamWycherley (Author), ThomasH.Fujimura (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  1965

  $34.98

  The resourceful hero of The Country Wife is Horner, the scourge of stupid husbands and the hope of unhappy wives. Through a single simple ruse, Horner helps one woman after another settle accounts with a foolish spouse. Margery, the country wife, upsets his plans when she learns the manners of the city and begins to apply them herself.

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  Restoration era London: Puritan laws and censorship laws are repealed; theatres re-open; and the cosmopolitan wives are living it up with extravagance, infidelity and impertinence towards their cuckold husbands.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

• Used

  Hardcover
  1985

  $3.25