Friendship and family in early modern England: the sociability of Adam Eyre and Samuel Pepys.

From: Journal of Social History | Date: March 22, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

Well, a pox on love and wenching! Women serve but to keep a man from better company. . . . I tell you, 'tis as hard to be a good fellow, a good friend, and a lover of women, as 'tis to be a good fellow, a good friend, and a lover of money. You cannot follow both. . . .

William Wycherley, The Country Wife, I.i.

Wycherley's bluff, tongue-in-cheek misogyny was characteristic of the Restoration stage. The playwrights of seventeenth-century England used it to establish their male characters and to set the stage for plots about courtship and marriage. Misogynist male bonding set up a ...

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