SOURCE: Vance, John A. “‘Plagues and Torments’: The Country Wife.” In William Wycherley and the Comedy of Fear, pp. 81-129. Newark, Del.: University of Delaware Press, 2000.
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 potency, while the female's is perpetual incarceration.
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