The Country Wife
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780801820793 (0801820790)
Publish date: May 1st 1978
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages no: 255
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Humor,
Comedy,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Read For School,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
College,
17th Century
Restoration comedy. Where the modern sit-com comes from. Except the Restoration writers were truly funny. The Country Wife, from 1675, is written in the time after the Restoration of Charles II when all of London wanted to break free from the shackles of Puritanism. And break free they did. My ...
This was really a poor choice for in-car listening, as I couldn't give it the attention it needed. It took me to almost halfway through to get the characters satisfactorily sorted out in my head, so there were parts of the plot from the earlier section of the play that I missed because I didn't have...
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