The Four Plays Of William Wycherly
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The four plays of William Wycherley
Author | : William R. Chadwick |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2015-07-24 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3111632520 |
William Wycherley and the Comedy of Fear
Author | : John A. Vance |
Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780874137088 |
"This is a study of the four plays of William Wycherley - long considered one of England's most important playwrights especially of the theatrically rich Restoration period, 1660-1700. The subject of many a study by the period's leading scholars, Wycherley has been perceived as a vigorous satirist, setting out "quite openly to teach his audience" about a multitude of personal and social sins." "This study takes issue with such impressions. It argues that Wycherley was not so much an attacking playwright but rather a thinking one - little concerned with larger social, political, and moral matters but one fascinated instead by the workings and motivations of fallible and insecure men and women - by that which is constant, pervasive and obsessive."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
William Wycherley [Four Plays]
Author | : William Wycherley |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2022-08-10 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
The four plays of William Wycherley are his only works of literature. Yet they earned him fame. The four plays are "Love in a Wood or St. James's Park," published in 1672, "The Gentleman Dancing Master," published in 1673, "The Country Wife, published in 1675," and "The Plain Dealer," published in 1677.
The Complete Plays of William Wycherley
Author | : William Wycherley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | : |
Country Wife and Other Plays
Author | : William Wycherley |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | : 9780192834546 |
Wycherley's four comedies are admired for their satirical wit, farcical humour, vivid characterization, and social criticism.Love in a Wood, a lively comedy of intrigue, established him as a brilliant new dramatist.The Gentleman Dancing-Master, in contrast, disappointed contemporary audiences,but the central relationship between Hippolyta and Gerrard features an original and sympathetic study of a young woman's attitudes and feelings. The Country Wife is a sharp but also highly amusing attack on social and sexual hypocrisy. The Plain Dealer, a powerful dramatic satire loosely based onMoliere's Le Misanthrope, continues and enlarges Wycherley's assault on greed and corruption.Under the General Editorship of Michael Cordner of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is a scholarly introduction, a note on staging, and detailed annotation.