{"product_id":"2026200015736-secondhand-the-complete-plays-of-william-wycherley","title":"The Complete Plays Of William Wycherley","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew playwrights captured the gleeful moral corruption of Restoration England with as much wit and venom as William Wycherley, whose four complete works — Love in a Wood, The Gentleman Dancing-Master, The Country Wife, and The Plain Dealer — are gathered here in a definitive single volume. Set against the glittering, hypocritical world of late seventeenth-century London society, these comedies chronicle the games of seduction, disguise, and social climbing played by a cast of rogues, fools, and sharp-tongued survivors, each play a scalpel dissecting the pretensions of an age drunk on its own sophistication.\n\nEdited with a scholarly introduction, notes, and variants by Gerald Weales, this collection presents Wycherley's canon in a form accessible to both the general reader and the serious student of Restoration drama. Wycherley's style is bracingly direct — often savage — where his contemporaries preferred elegant evasion, and it is this unsparing quality that secured his reputation as one of the period's most subversive voices. Whether read as social satire, theatrical history, or sheer literary pleasure, these plays pose a question that still resonates: in a world built on appearances, who — if anyone — is telling the truth?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203253084379,"sku":"2026200015736-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/2f8d5172-da57-4607-ae08-e4c18706a1a8.png?v=1788146468","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015736-secondhand-the-complete-plays-of-william-wycherley","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}