by William Wycherley · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780192826183
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«The Country Wife and Other Plays» is the theatre volume by William Wycherley containing his four comedies, published by Oxford University Press in paperback.
Volume containing Wycherley's four comedies: Love in a Wood, The Gentleman Dancing-Master, The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer. In them the author wittily satirises the hypocrisy, jealousy and amorous intrigues of seventeenth-century English society, combining farce and social criticism.
The edition, in English, is part of the Oxford World's Classics series, with texts edited by Peter Dixon; it was published in 1996 and has 528 pages. Spelling and punctuation have been modernised.
Aimed at students of English literature and theatre, and at readers interested in Restoration comedy.
William Wycherley was an English playwright best known for writing the plays The Country Wife (1675) and The Plain Dealer (1676).
