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 POETRY & DRAMA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The books reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society, ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. Containing many classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection has something for every lover of the stage and verse. ++++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; 1766. 8 . 643.i.2.(5.) 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.