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- William Wycherley (April 1641 – 1 January 1716) was an English Army officer and playwright best known for writing the plays The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer.
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William Wycherley (April 1641 – 1 January 1716) was an English Army officer and playwright best known for writing the plays The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer.
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.
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Nov 29, 2023 · A new Channel 5 documentary tonight explores the truth behind the murders of elderly couple William and Patricia Wycherley who lay undiscovered for more than a decade.
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One of the foremost dramatists of the Restoration period, British author William Wycherleycombined 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. Wycherley's plays have attracted ...
Social-Climbing FatherWycherley was born in Hampshire, England, c. 1640, into an established Shrop-shire family. His father, David Wycherley, was a steward and deputy for a local aristocrat, and he spent his entire adult life hoarding money, trying to climb the social ladder, and entering into lawsuits. Such activities became prime targets of his s...
Wycherley was both a product and an exponent of the “Restoration,” a period from 1660 to 1700 marking Charles II's “restoration” to the British throne. After his father was executed in 1649, Charles II left England to be protected in the opulent palace of King Louis XIV of France, where he learned the pleasures of fast living and enjoyed the attent...
Wycherley's reputation as a playwright and his place in the literary tradition have always been problematic because the history of Wycherley studies hinges upon a bitter paradox. In his own day, Wycherley was considered to be a moral satirist of the seriousness and stature of the classical writers Horace and Juvenal. Yet from the nineteenth century...
In an essay, consider the following questions: Do you think a play is “immoral,” if it is trying toaccurately reflect or satirize immoral times? Was the Restoration court under Charles II as “immor...In a presentation, consider the following questions: What is the role of women in one or more of Wycherley's plays? What stereotypes do they embody, or do you think they run counter to stereotypes?...Consider the names of some of Wycherley's comic characters. How are they meaningful? Do you think the satire is subtle or heavy-handed? Discuss your opinions in a group.Books
Hume, Robert. The Development of English Drama in the Late Seventeenth Century. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford UniversityPress, 1976. Rogers, Katharine M. William Wycherley. New York: Twayne, 1972. Vernon, P. F. William Wycherley. London: Longmans, Green, 1965. Wilson, John Harold. A Preface to Restoration Drama. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1965. Zimbardo, Rose A. Wycherley's Drama: A Link in the Development of English Satire. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UniversityPress, 1965.
Periodicals
Evans, Lloyd. “Losing the Plot (The Country Wife and Rent.” Spectator(November 3, 2007): 84. Rump, Eric. “Theme and Structure in Wycherley's Love in a Wood.” English Studies54 (August 1973): 326–33.
Web Sites
William Wycherley. Retrieved March 13, 2008, from http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc95.html
At some point over the Early May bank holiday weekend in 1998, William and Patricia Wycherley were shot and killed in their home in a suburb of Mansfield, England, by their daughter Susan and her husband, Christopher Edwards.
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.
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