LITERATURE QUESTIONS
RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA
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As a country wife, she is more sophisticated in the ways of adultery than a city wife.
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She threatens to blackmail him.
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Because she has had an affair with him, she knows for sure that he is not impotent, and she almost tells the others.
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She tells her maid about her affair who almost tells the others.
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She tells her husband that he should indeed worry about her spending time with Mr. Horner.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The Country Wife is a Restoration comedy written by William Wycherley and first performed in 1675. A product of the tolerant early Restoration period, the play reflects an aristocratic and anti-Puritan ideology, and was controversial for its sexual explicitness even in its own time.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Pinchwife is Margery’s husband. He is obsessively jealous and is terrified of being made to look foolish and of gaining a reputation as a “cuckold.” He has chosen Margery for a wife because he believes that she is innocent and naïve and therefore easy to control.