The Country Wife is a controversial sexually explicit play written in 1675. It is complicated and difficult to read.There are three plots in the play:
1. Horner pretends to be impotent in order to sleep with as many married women as possible. He spreads the rumor of his impotence, in order to convince married men that he can be trusted to socialize with their wives.
2. Pinchwife -a middle-aged man who marries a naive country girl hoping that he will not be cuckolded (a man being cuckolded is the last to know of his wife's infidelity). Until Horner gets a hold of her.
3. The love story of Harcourt and Alithea - Harcourt wins the hand of Alithea from the hands of the Upper-class town snob after she discovered he only loves her for her money.
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