william wycherley in a sentence

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1. His " The Maide of the Mill " ( 1765 ), with music by bowdlerised versions of plays by William Wycherley and Pedro Calderon de la Barca.
2. In the Jean Cocteau Repertory's contemporary staging of William Wycherley's " The Country Wife, " the director is Tori Haring-Smith and she turns bawdy satire into burlesque.
3. During mid-2007, Stephens played the role of Jerry in a revival of Harold Pinter's " Jonathan Kent's revival of William Wycherley's " The Country Wife ".
4. In October, he finished a run in William Wycherley's " Country Wife " at the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he also appeared last season in " Love's Labour's Lost ."
5. That's one of the assumptions of William Wycherley's Restoration comedy " The Country Wife, " whose central character, Horner, poses as a castrato, the better to seduce his friends'wives and lovers.
6. The unsentimental or " hard " comedies of John Dryden, William Wycherley, and George Etherege reflected the atmosphere at Court and celebrated with frankness an aristocratic lewd pun and whose notorious " china scene " is a series of sustained double entendres.
7. His interpretations of Iago and of the title role in Ben Jonson's " Volpone " were famous, and he brought a sinister edge to the part of Pinchwife in William Wycherley's " The Country Wife ".
8. He directed three plays : William Wycherley's " The Country Wife ", Edward Bond's " Marguerite ", a musical based on " La Dame aux Cam�lias ", with music by Michel Legrand and book by Alain Boublil
9. She was equally at home in the classics of British theater, giving an outstanding performance as Lady Fidget in a BBC " Play of the Month ", William Wycherley's Restoration comedy " The Country Wife " ( 1977 ) with Helen Mirren.
10. The unsentimental or " hard " comedies of John Dryden, William Wycherley, and George Etherege reflected the atmosphere at Court, and celebrated with frankness an aristocratic William Wycherley, " The Country Wife " : " O Lord, I'll have some china too.