Abstract
The last works of certain authors give us a good deal of trouble. Like Amelia or Daniel Deronda or Finnegans Wake-or Wycherley's The Plain Dealer-they tend to confuse feelings and even genres. They often retreat into reticence, voicing themselves through impenetrable symbols or figures. We are hardly sure whether The Plain Dealer is satire, so hidden are its standards. And we wonder whether it is comedy. The general characteristics of this play are like those of the late work of Rochester. The Plain Dealer was produced in 1676 and printed the following year; Poems on Several Occasions appeared in 1680. The poems were widely circulated in the preceding decade, and I will assume that Wycherley was as conscious of Rochester as Rochester was of him:
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