The Town-Fopp: or, Sir Timothy Tawdrey
Play by Aphra Behn / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Town-Fopp: or, Sir Timothy Tawdrey is a Restoration comedy written by Aphra Behn and first staged in 1676.[1][2] It deals with an unhappy marriage and its dissolution.
The play reworks George Wilkins' play The Miseries of Enforced Marriage (1607), itself based on events from the life of Walter Calverley who entered into an arranged marriage. A heavy drinker, Calverley stabbed his wife and killed two of his children in 1605, but these crimes are not related in Wilkins' play which contrives a happy ending.[3] In Behn's play the unhappy couple manage to dissolve their marriage and seek happiness with other partners.