Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
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William Wycherley
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Standard Name: Wycherley, William
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Mary Jones | An Advertisement in the volume itself is uncharacteristically humble in tone for MJ
. It disclaims ambition and says it was quite accidental, that her thoughts ever rambled into rhyme. It calls her writings the... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Haywood | True to her name, EH
's heroine snubs Mr Trueworth because she really can't be bothered with him. She is already sorry before (ignoring ominous nightmares) she marries the egregious Mr Munden. He not only... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah Cowley | HC
borrows her plot from Wycherley
's The Country Wife, though considerably softening its harshness. (The ingenue Arabella is caught by her guardian uncle, Feelove, not her husband, apparently writing a love-letter; but she... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catharine Trotter | The negative influence of CT
's marriage on her career was very considerable. Years later, in a letter significantly addressed to the greatest writer of the age (that is Alexander Pope
), which it seems... |
| Literary responses | Aphra Behn | The Tory content of this play (with that of The Roundheads) moved the Whig Thomas Shadwell
to attack AB
as a literary whore. At the same time the same charge was levelled against her... |
| Literary responses | Mary Lady Chudleigh | Dryden
showed his copy of the poem to |
| Reception | Aphra Behn | The Rover brought AB
to the notice of the Duke of York
. |
| Textual Features | Judith Drake | Its boldness in argument—seeking to lift women to an Equallity [sic] Drake, Judith. An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex. A. Roper, E. Wilkinson, and R. Clavel, 1696, http://U of A, Special Collections. A2 |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Thomas | The author (perhaps |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Alethea Lewis | She heads her novel with a prefatory letter to the Rev. William Johnstone
, who, she says, has asked why she chooses to write fiction and not moral essays. She answers that novels offer opportunities... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Constantia Grierson | CG
praises Barber for writing non-heroic poetry, for her useful motives, her power to move, and the purity of her work. (Writers she mentions with asterisks as having cause to regret the bad moral effect... |
Timeline
Probably March 1671: William Wycherley's first comedy, Love in...
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Probably March 1671
William Wycherley
's first comedy, Love in a Wood, opened on stage; it was published the next year.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
12 January 1675: William Wycherley's comedy The Country Wife...
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12 January 1675
William Wycherley
's comedy The Country Wife probably had its first performance.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
11 December 1676: William Wycherley's last play, The Plain...
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11 December 1676
William Wycherley
's last play, The Plain Dealer (a somewhat dark comedy), adapted from Molière
's Le Misanthrope, had its first appearance.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
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