id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5028 William Wycherley - Wikipedia .html text/html 3442 276 72 William Wycherley (baptised 8 April 1641 – 1 January 1716) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for the plays The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer. Thomas Macaulay hints that Wycherley's subsequent turning back to Roman Catholicism once more was influenced by the patronage and unwonted liberality of the Duke of York, the future King James II.[5] As a professional fine gentleman, at a period when, as Major Pack wrote, "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. 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.[13] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5028.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5028.txt