SOURCE: Knapp, Peggy A. “The ‘Plyant Discourse’ of Wycherley's The Country Wife.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 40, no. 3 (summer 2000): 451-72.
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 by various groups of the time.
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