The jealous Pinchwife tries to keep the title character innocent, but fails when she is introduced to Horner, who pretends to be impotent in order to have sex with a number of married women.
In this play's prologue, Mr. Hart tells the audience that actors often "anticipate your rage / and murder poets for you on the stage." In another play, Mrs. Trifle is believed to be immodest because she saw this "hideous" play "without blushing or publishing her detestation of it," but Eliza proclaims she will go see it, and it will "not put [her] out of conceit with china," referring to a scene where Mrs. Squeamish and Lady Fidget flirt with the protagonist. In a subplot, Sparkish's mistrust of Alithea leads her to admit her love for Harcourt. The jealous Pinchwife tries to keep the title character innocent, but fails when she is introduced to Horner, who pretends to be impotent in order to have sex with a number of married women. Written one year before The Plain Dealer, FTP, name this play by William Wycherley.
In this play's prologue, Mr. Hart tells the audience that actors often "anticipate your rage / and murder poets for you on the stage.
The {Country Wife}