ENG337H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: The Conscious Lovers
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He was an aspiring courtier (attendant to the queen) His life was marred by illness, debt, litigation, and two controversial marriages. He enjoyed the friendship of the court wits and the admiration of the court ladies. He also enjoyed the fondness of the king himself. This is the third of wycherley"s four plays. He has a reputation as a powerful comedic and satiric dramatist. The date it first produced on the london stage this play was written in 1675 it was first performed by the king"s company at the theatre royal, drury lane. It ran through the mid-eighteenth century and was moderately successful. In 1753 it disappeared form the stage and was replaced a few years later by two radical adaptations which claimed to have excised the impropriety of the original. Both eliminated the vital center of the play horner"s character, and the plot of lust and deception. It wasn"t put back on stage until 1924.
