A character created by this author threatens to "write Whore / with this penknife in your face" while forcing his wife to write a letter.
A character created by this author threatens to "write Whore / with this penknife in your face" while forcing his wife to write a letter. This man's first play is set largely in St. James's Park and ends its first act with a song sung by Lady Flippant that earned this author the patronage of the Duchess of Cleveland. In another of his plays, the merchant James Formal'sobsession with Spanish customs allows Gerrard to seduce his daughter Hippolita while posing as the title instructor. A jilting at the hands of Olivia, who instead marries Vernish, fuels the misanthropy of Captain Manly in a play by this author, whose most famous play includes a scene where Ladies Fidget and Squeamish use double entendres that slyly refer to sex with the word "china." That play by this man centers on Horner, who feigns impotence in a ploy to have sex with married women. For 10 points, name this Restoration dramatist of Love in a Wood, The Gentleman Dancing-Master, The Plain Dealer, and The Country Wife.
A character created by this author threatens to "write Whore / with this penknife in your face" while forcing his wife to write a letter.
William  Wycherley