The Country Wife, Royal Exchange, Manchester
What's in a name? Pinchwife, Fidget, Horner, Squeamish, Sparkish… William Wycherley labelled his characters blatantly. No-one is hornier than Horner, the womaniser who puts it about (sorry) that he is impotent after surgery for the pox. Pinchwife's wife gets pinched and no one is more cuckolded than he. Mind you, he takes the "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" approach in the end when he says "cuckolds, like lovers,…