The Country Wife EPUB

by William Wycherley

Part of the NHB Classic Plays series

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The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers.

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The editions of English-language plays include a glossary of unusual words and phrases to aid understanding. The Country Wife is a classically bawdy Restoration Comedy. 1675. The aptly named Horner is pretending to be a eunuch in order to gain access to women under their husbands' noses.

Pinchwife has recently married an innocent country girl, who immediately falls for Horner.

Pinchwife's plans to stop any liaison go badly awry.

Meanwhile Horner is giving pleasure to assorted other wives.

All ends happily with Pinchwife - and the other husbands - convinced of Horner's impotence...

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Format:EPUB
Pages:188 pages
Publisher:Nick Hern Books
Publication Date:11/11/2015
Category:
- Plays, playscripts
ISBN:9781780016801

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