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Wycherley, William

(Encyclopedia) Wycherley, WilliamWycherley, Williamwĭchˈərlē [key], 1640?–1716, English dramatist, b. near Shrewsbury. His first comedy, Love in a Wood (1671), was a huge success and won him the…

Brewer's: Blackacre

(Widow ). The best of Wycherley's comic characters; she is a masculine, litigious, pettifogging, head-strong woman. (The Plain Dealer.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…