Timeline
Lifetime:
1641 -
1716
Passed: ≈
308 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
William Wycherley
Books by William Wycherley
Country Wife
Comedy
Misogyny
Sexual Intrigue
Restoration Comedy
Cuckoldry
Gender dynamics
Seventeenth-century society
Innuendo
Harcourt
Son of the Exiles
Dorilant
Sparkish
The Country Wife is a lively and riotous exploration of courtly and city life in the seventeenth century. The play follows the clever town rake Horner, who feigns impotence in order to seduce women of quality and cuckold their unwitting husbands. One...