For 10 points, name this Restoration dramatist of The Plain Dealer and The Country Wife.
One of this author's characters is the namesake of a John Barth character who suffers from a disease called cosmopsis, the protagonist of The End of the Road. This author's first play opens in the "gripe's house, in the evening" with Lady Flippant bitching about her good-for-nothing husband to Mrs. Joyner, and a better-known work by this author contains the common women Mrs. Flirt and Mrs. Flounce and centers on Mr. (*) Gerard's sexual liberation of a cloistered-off 14 year old girl. In addition to writing Love in a Wood and the aforementioned play based on a Calderon work in which Hippolyta and her fiancee escape to France, The Gentleman Dancing Master, this author wrote a play in which a page sent by one character turns out to be a woman, causing the protagonist to forget Vernish and Olivia, and a play "cleaned up" by David Garrick in which Harcourt and Alithea end up together while Margery is seduced by a man pretending to be a eunuch, Harry Horner. For 10 points, name this Restoration dramatist of The Plain Dealer and The Country Wife.
One of this author's characters is the namesake of a John Barth character who suffers from a disease called cosmopsis, the protagonist of The End of the Road.
{William Wycherley}