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The Country Wife.
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In the essay below, Cohen examines the tension and energy inherent in the social situation presented in the play The Country Wife.
The Country Wife is a play which is carried by the energy of constant...
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In the essay below, Hawkins discusses Wycherley's use of language and imagery in The Country Wife.
L. C. Knights has famously charged that metaphoric density is precisely what Restoration Comed...
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In the following essay, Knapp examines the language of The Country Wife for evidence of then current social practices and attitudes. She maintains that this play would have been understood differently...
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In the excerpt below, Vance discusses Wycherley's varied portrayals of fear and weakness in The Country Wife. As portrayed by Wycherley, the male's primary fear is the loss of sexual pot...
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`A marriage vow is like a penitent gamester's oath and
entering into bonds and penalties to stint himself to
such a particular small sum at play for the future,
which makes him but the more eager a...
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Critical Essay by Derek Cohen
Explore Wycherley's Representation of Marriage In`the Country Wife'
