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Classicism. Notable works. The Country Wife; The Plain Dealer. William Wycherley (baptised 8 April 1641 – 1 January 1716) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for the plays The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer .
- poet; playwright
- Classicism
- 1641, Clive, Shropshire, England
William Wycherley en 1675. William Wycherley (Clive, bautizado el 8 de abril de 1641 - Londres, 1 de enero de 1716) fue un dramaturgo y poeta inglés, cuyas obras son típicas de la literatura de la Restauración inglesa. Biografía. Su padre era mayordomo del marqués de Winchester.
16 de abr. de 2024 · William Wycherley was an English dramatist who attempted to reconcile in his plays a personal conflict between deep-seated puritanism and an ardent physical nature. He perhaps succeeded best in The Country-Wife (1675), in which satiric comment on excessive jealousy and complacency was blended with.
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William Wycherley. publicado en Autores Por Reseñas de enciclopedias. COMPARTE. Nació en Clive, cerca de Shrewsbury (Shropshire) en 1640 y murió en Londres el 1. ° de enero de 1716.
14 de may. de 2018 · One of the foremost dramatists of the Restoration period, British author William Wycherley combined 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.
The Plain Dealer is a Restoration comedy by William Wycherley, first performed on 11 December 1676. The play is based on Molière's Le Misanthrope, and is generally considered Wycherley's finest work along with The Country Wife. The play was highly praised by John Dryden and John Dennis, though it was equally condemned for its ...
The manuscripts Wycherley left on his deathbed to his second wife, Elizabeth Jackson, evidently lie at least in part (allegedly ‘one Moiety’ of them) behind the first volume of The Posthumous Works of William Wycherley Esq., edited by Lewis Theobald (London, 1728), if not also the second volume which Pope stepped in to edit (1729).
