Wycherley's sexy comedy transplanted to the Roaring TwentiesEven in its successful early days Wycherley's 1675 comedy was notorious, but it was considered too lewd to be staged at all between the mid-Eighteenth Century and 1924. Although the play has found an affectionate place in the canon in more recent times, it makes a kind of sense to transpose the goings on of louche Restoration aristocrats to the era of the Br…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:30PM on April 4, 2018