Person    | Male  Born 1641  Died 1/1/1716

William Wycherley

Categories: Theatre

Playwright. No birth information but baptised in 1641 in Hampshire. Wrote The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer. Died in Bow Street.

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William Wycherley

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Bow Street

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