William Wycherley

The Country Girl, a Comedy [in Five Acts and in Prose], Altered from Wycherley [by David Garrick]. William Wycherley

Publisher Marketing: Title: The Country Girl, a comedy [in five acts and in prose], altered from Wycherley [by David Garrick]. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Wycherley, William; 1767. 8 . 83.a.20.(3.) Contributor Bio:  Wycherley, William William Wycherley (1640-1716) was an English playwright of the Restoration era, whose bawdy and satirical plays contain elements of biting social criticism. Despite their harshness, his works enjoyed a great vogue, and Wycherley became a favourite of King Charles II. Congreve was amongst those who saw Wycherley as an essentially moral writer appointed "to lash this crying age." As a young man Wycherley studied law but became bored and abandoned it: his first play, "Love in a Wood, or, St James's Park", was produced at Drury Lane in 1671. He followed this success with "The Gentleman Dancingmaster" (1672) and his two great plays "The Country Wife" (1675), and The Plain Dealer (1676). However, as a result of his somewhat dissolute lifestyle, he spent seven years in debtors' prison until rescued by James II.