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Wycherley wrote verses, and, when quite an old man, prepared them for the press aided by Alexander Pope, then not much more than a boy.
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In 1840 he wrote introductory notices to the work of Sheridan and to Edward Moxon's edition of the works of William Wycherley, William Congreve, John Vanbrugh and George Farquhar, a work which furnished the occasion of Macaulay's essay on the Dramatists of the Restoration.
During the reign of Charles II ( 1660 – 1685 ), playwrights such as John Dryden, George Etherege, Aphra Behn, and William Wycherley wrote comedies that triumphantly reassert aristocratic dominance and prestige after the years of middle class power during Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth.
Wycherley wrote with the original actors in mind, tailoring the roles to their strengths.
Edmund Gosse called the play " perhaps the best existing English comedy of intrigue ", while Charles Lamb wrote that " This comedy grew out of Congreve and Wycherley ," but criticized " sentimental incompatibilities " even while admitting that " the gaiety upon the whole is buoyant.
William Wycherley wrote that Tonson had long been gentleman-usher to the Muses: " you will make Jacob's ladder raise you to immortality.
Wycherley and verses
The friendship between the two cooled, according to Pope's account, because Wycherley took offence at the numerous corrections on his verses.
Wycherley and when
As a professional fine gentleman, at a period when, as the genial Major Pack says, " the amours of Britain would furnish as diverting memoirs, if well related, as those of France published by Rabutin, or those of Nero's court writ by Petronius ", Wycherley was obliged to be a loose liver.
Possibly Wycherley intended this famous song as a glorification of Her Grace and her profession, for he seems to have been more delighted than surprised when, as he passed in his coach through Pall Mall, he heard her address him from her coach window as a " rascal " and a " villain ", and the son of a woman such as that mentioned in the song.
Wycherley and quite
Wycherley laughed off such criticisms in his next play, The Plain Dealer ( 1676 ), where he has the hypocritical Olivia exclaim that the china scene in The Country Wife " has quite taken away the reputation of poor china itself, and sullied the most innocent and pretty furniture of a lady's chamber ".
Wycherley and man
King Charles, who had determined to bring up his son, the Duke of Richmond, like a prince, sought as his tutor a man as qualified as Wycherley to impart a " princely education ", and it seems clear that, if not for Wycherley's marriage, the education of the young man would actually have been entrusted to him as a reward for having written Love in a Wood.
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Wycherley's The Plain Dealer ( 1676 ), a variation on the theme of Molière's Le Misanthrope, was highly regarded for its uncompromising satire and earned Wycherley the appellation " Plain Dealer " Wycherley or " Manly " Wycherley, after the play's main character Manly.
William Wycherley ( c. 1640 – 31 December 1715 ) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for the plays The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer.
While talking to a friend in a bookseller's shop at Tunbridge, Wycherley heard The Plain Dealer asked for by a lady who, in the person of the countess of Drogheda ( Letitia Isabella Robartes, eldest daughter of the 1st Earl of Radnor and widow of the 2nd Earl of Drogheda ), answered all the requirements.
An introduction ensued, then love-making, then marriage — a secret marriage, probably in 1680, for, fearing to lose the king's patronage and the income therefrom, Wycherley still thought it politic to pass as a bachelor.
Wycherley lost the appointment that was so nearly within his grasp — lost indeed the royal favour for ever.
* In his Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, clergyman Jeremy Collier attaks leading contemporary dramatists ( William Congreve and Sir John Vanbrugh most prominently, but also John Dryden, Thomas d ' Urfey, and William Wycherley ) for moral shortcomings in their works.
In 1999, recently elected chairman Roland Wycherley released plans for a new stadium, provisionally titled the New Meadow, a 10, 000 all-seater stadium situated on the southern outskirts of the town, between the Meole Brace and Sutton Farm districts of the town.
Pope's Pastorals were submitted for his criticism by Wycherley in 1705, and Walsh then entered on a direct correspondence with the young poet.
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However, his nickname of " Manly Wycherley " seems to have been earned by his straightforward attitude to life.
* William Wycherley Edited with an Introduction and Notes by W C Ward, part of Mermaid Series Includes biography of Wycherley, together with the following written in play format Love in a Wood or St James's Park, The Gentleman Dancing Master, The Country Wife and the Plain Dealer.
The Country Wife is a Restoration comedy written in 1675 by William Wycherley.
Wycherley had no title or wealth, but had by 1675 already recommended himself by two well-received comedies and had been admitted to the inner circle, sharing the conversation and sometimes the mistresses of Charles, who " was extremely fond of him upon account of his wit ".
The courtier code proposed by Wycherley is of a sexual game.
" The aggressive attack mounted in the china scene against the class and the generation by which Wycherley was patronised with the expectation that he would defend it ( against Sir Jaspar Fidget and Lady Fidget ), suggests Canfield, would only let an audience of that class laugh comfortably if Horner were punished by actual impotence in the end, which he is not.
Category: Plays by William Wycherley
The Plain Dealer is a Restoration comedy by William Wycherley, first performed on 11 December 1676.
Category: Plays by William Wycherley
Her career spanned sixty years during which she played over 150 different roles, in works by Shakespeare, Congreve, Ibsen, Wycherley, Wilde and dramatists of her era including George Bernard Shaw, Enid Bagnold, Christopher Fry and Noël Coward.
* The Country Wife by William Wycherley
* 1704: The Campaign by Joseph Addison ; Miscellany Poems by William Wycherley
* William Wycherley-The Posthumous Works of William Wycherley, edited by Lewis Theobald ( part of Theobald's and Curll's battle with Pope and other " Tory " wits )
Dubbed the " Merry Gang " by poet Andrew Marvell, their members included George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, Sir Charles Sedley, Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, and the playwrights William Wycherley and George Etherege.
After travelling in France and Italy, he settled in London, where he became acquainted with Dryden, and close to Wycherley, Congreve and the leading literary figures of his day ; and being made temporarily independent by inheriting a small fortune, he devoted himself to literature.
* Letters upon Several Occasions written by and between Mr. Dryden, Mr. Wycherley, Mr. Moyle, Mr. Congreve and Mr Dennis, published by Mr Dennis ( 1696 ).
Wycherley and Pope
After five years of study, Pope came into contact with figures from the London literary society such as William Wycherley, William Congreve, Samuel Garth, William Trumbull, and William Walsh.
He introduced the young Pope to the ageing playwright William Wycherley and to William Walsh, a minor poet, who helped Pope revise his first major work, The Pastorals.
It seems more likely that Wycherley discovered that Pope, while still professing friendship and admiration, satirized his friend in the Essay on Criticism.
After The British Mercury folded, he launched another attack on Pope in a play called A New Rehearsal ( 1714 ) and in the body of Memoirs of the Life of William Wycherley ( one of Pope's mentors ) in 1718.
Wycherley and much
The New Comedy influenced much of Western European literature, primarily through Plautus: in particular the comic drama of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Congreve, and Wycherley.
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" Writing himself into The Plain Dealer as the " beastly author " of the china scene, Wycherley seems more amused than repentant.
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The series also featured a number of contemporary Irish actors and comedians, including Dervla Kirwan, Graham Norton, Tommy Tiernan, Patrick McDonnell, Don Wycherley, Joe Rooney, Jason Byrne, Jim Norton, Pat Shortt, Jon Kenny, Ed Byrne, Brendan Grace, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Gerard McSorley and Kevin McKidd.
* January 1 – William Wycherley, English playwright ( b. c. 1640 )
The unsentimental or " hard " comedies of John Dryden, William Wycherley, and George Etherege reflected the atmosphere at Court, and celebrated with frankness an aristocratic macho lifestyle of unremitting sexual intrigue and conquest.
William Wycherley, The Country Wife: " O Lord, I'll have some china too.
Buckingham was one of the archetypal Restoration rakes, part of the " Merry Gang " of courtiers whose other members included John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, Sir Charles Sedley, Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, and the playwrights William Wycherley and George Etherege.
The Duke was the patron of Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat, Matthew Clifford and William Wycherley.
William Wycherley in 1675.
Like John Vanbrugh, Wycherley spent some years of his adolescence in France, where he was sent, at fifteen, to be educated in the heart of the " precious " circle on the banks of the Charente.
While in France, Wycherley converted to Roman Catholicism.
Under Barlow's influence, Wycherley returned to the Church of England.
Wycherley only lived in the provost's lodgings ; he does not seem to have matriculated or taken a degree.
Wycherley left Oxford and took up residence at the Inner Temple, but gave little attention to the study of law.
Though Wycherley boasted of having written the play at the age of nineteen, before going to Oxford, this is probably untrue.
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