LITERATURE QUESTIONS
RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA
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hypocrisy in marriage and society.
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that all marriages are subject to adultery.
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the loveless society of 18th-century England.
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the innocence of those who live in the country.
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All of these answers
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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 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: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.