The "Plyant" Discourse of Wycherley's The Country Wife.(Critical Essay)

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 | June 22, 2000| | Copyright

In a spirited defense of the excellences of Restoration culture, John Dryden praises King Charles II for having awakened "the dull and heavy spirits of the English, from their natural reserv'dness; loosen'd them, from their stiff forms of conversation; and made them easy and plyant to each other in discourse. Thus, insensibly, our way of living become more free: and the fire of the English wit, which was before stifled under a constrain'd, melancholy way of breeding, began first to display its force: by mixing the solidity of our Nation, with the air and gayety of our ...

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