LITERATURE QUESTIONS
RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA
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Mrs. Alithea and Mr. Sparkish.
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Miss Lucy and Mr. Sparkish.
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Mrs. Alithea and Mr. Harcourt.
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Miss Lucy and Mr. Harcourt.
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Mrs. Pinchwife and Mr. Horner.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Country-Wife, comedy of manners in five acts by Restoration dramatist William Wycherley, performed and published in 1675. It satirizes the sexual duplicity of the aristocracy during the reign of Charles II.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Country Wife is about a womanizer named Harry Horner. Horner convinces his doctor to spread a rumor that he is impotent. Horner hopes news of his impotence will convince married men to permit their wives to visit him. Sir Jasper Fidget, a businessman, leaves his wife, Lady Fidget, and her friends in Horner’s care.
Detailed explanation-3: -As a comedy of manners, The Country Wife satirizes Restoration London’s patriarchal hierarchy through cuckolding, wherein Horner, the play’s licentious libertine posing as a eunuch, undermines the power of the patriarchy by having affairs with married women and deceiving their unsuspecting husbands.
Detailed explanation-4: -The humour is created through the dramatic irony that Pinchwife believes he is handing over his sister not his wife, however the audience know otherwise, and know he is securing his own fate with this action. Thus when Pinchwife says to Horner “The last time, you know, sir, I brought you a love letter.