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The Plain Dealer

The Plain Dealer is a Restoration comedy by William Wycherley, first performed on 11 December 1676. The play is based on Molière's Le Misanthrope, and is generally considered Wycherley's finest work along with The Country Wife.


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“And with faint praises one another damn.”

The Plain Dealer (1677), Prologue.

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