"Country wife" - Inaka Nyobo

…His first work was Love in the Wood (premiered in 1671), followed by The Gentleman's Dancing Master (premiered in 1672). His most famous third work, The Country Wife (premiered in 1675), was a frank depiction of the promiscuous relationships in the society of the time, with the protagonist pretending to be sexually impotent in order to lull the world's husbands into a false sense of security and seducing married women, and was criticized for being obscene. His last work, The Candid Man (premiered in 1676), based on Molière's The Misanthrope, was a sharp satire of the hypocrisy of society. …

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…処女作《森の中の恋》(1671初演)，次いで《紳士の舞踏教師》(1672初演)を発表。もっとも有名な第3作《田舎女房》(1675初演)は，性的不能者を装って世間の夫たちを油断させ，人妻を誘惑する男を主人公として，当時の社交界の乱れた男女関係を赤裸に描写したもので，卑猥との非難もうけた。最後の作品はモリエールの《人間嫌い》をもとにした《率直な男》(1676初演)で，社交界の偽善を激しく風刺した。…

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