George Farquhar's " The Beaux'Stratagem " and William Wycherley's " The Country Wife ."
22.
William Wycherley may have coined the expression " nincompoop " ( certainly, the word occurs in " The Plain Dealer " ).
23.
Boutell specialized in breeches roles, such as Fidelia in Wycherley's " The Plain Dealer " ( 11 December 1676 ).
24.
The supporting actors have extensive experience at the Abbey, Ireland's national theater, and include Don Wycherley, Gerard McSorley and Ciaran Hinds.
25.
A Restoration novelty of which Wycherley took advantage was the readiness of public opinion to accept women on stage, for the first time in British history.
26.
This applies especially to the new form Restoration comedy, dominated in the 1660s by William Wycherley and the Theatre Royal's house dramatist John Dryden.
27.
It included a letter from John Dennis on Wycherley, which was inserted in the first volume of the Letters of John Dennis, 1721.
28.
In coming to Wycherley's death, we come to the worst allegation that has ever been made against him as a man and as a gentleman.
29.
The " Oxford English Dictionary " also cites Wycherley as the first user of the phrase " happy-go-lucky ", in 1672.
30.
William Wycherley wrote that Tonson had long been gentleman-usher to the Muses : " you will make Jacob's ladder raise you to immortality ."
