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Scenes from the country wife
Key excerpts from the comedy of manners which paints an unflattering picture of the worldly hypocrites, would-be wits and fools who infested London in the late 17th century.
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- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/378135215#Event/1660_1700
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043342
- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1710947
- http://worldcat.org/entity/person/id/2626917722
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85039356
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043341
- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1710951
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/378135215#Event/1600_1699
- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/910737
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/378135215#Topic/theatre_anglais
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/378135215#Topic/english_drama_restoration
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/378135215#Topic/english_drama_restoration_1660_1700
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- "Key excerpts from the comedy of manners which paints an unflattering picture of the worldly hypocrites, would-be wits and fools who infested London in the late 17th century."@en
- "William Wycherley's comedy of manners The Country Wife paints an unflattering portrait of the hypocrisy he felt infested late 17th-century London. This presents excerpts that focus on Mr. Horner's comic pursuit of Mrs. Pinchwife under the vigilant gaze of her husband."@en
- "Mr. Horner, a rake with a bad reputation, has enlisted a Quack doctor to spread a rumor around London that he has returned from France a eunuch, impotent from venereal disease. That way all the husbands in town who normally wouldn't let him near their wives will trust him."