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Tag Archives: Country Wife
Literature Fills Your Life with Color
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Aphra Behn, books on disk, Cyrano de Bergerac. William Wycherley, Edmond Rostand, Gravedigger's Daughter, Joyce Carol Oates, Rover, theater Comments closed
On Supply Side and Self Deception
In Wycherley’s “Country Wife,” the entire society grasps at an implausible story to sustain its self deception. Sounds like the GOP and supply side economics.
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The Horror of Sex without Love
Sex without love, the subject of several sex comedies this past summer, was also an issue explored by poets and playwrights in the British Restoration.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Against Constancy, Comedy, Film, Friends with Benefits, John Wilmot, Libertine, No Strings Attached, sex, Sex without Love, Sharon Olds, William Wycherley Comments closed
Extreme Jealousy, a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
William Wycherley As I’ve been writing recently about Restoration and 18th Century couples comedies, allow me one last post on a brilliant but cold play, William Wycherley’s Country Wife (1675). I gained new insight into it when my student Stephanie Gonzalez noted that the jealousy theme in the play is one that she is very […]