Publisher's Synopsis
Mirabell, once a womanizer, seeks to marry a girl he loves, Ms. Millamant. Unfortunately, her aunt, Lady Wishfort, holds electricity over her 6,000-pound inheritance and despises Mirabell due to the fact he once pretended to like her. Mirabell and Ms. Millamant devise a plot wherein his servant, Waitworth, will marry Lady Wishfort's servant, Foible, and then woo Lady Wishfort in cover as Mirabell's uncle, Sir Rowland. The scheme proceeds as planned until Ms. Marwood, who unrequitedly goals Mirabell, overhears the plot whilst Foible fills in Lady Wishfort's daughter, Mrs. Fainall. Ms. Marwood tells the man to whom she is mistress, Mr. Fainall, about the scheme and the reality that Mirabell become additionally as soon as romantically concerned with his spouse, Mrs. Fainall. Incensed by way of this case, the two plans to foil Mirabell's scheme. Sir Wilfull, a nephew of Lady Wishfort's, comes to city earlier than departing to go abroad, and Lady Wishfort goals for him, although a bumbling man, to marry Ms. Millamant. The situation involves a head while Lady Wishfort, at the same time as travelling with "Sir Rowland," receives a letter from Ms. Marwood revealing Mirabell's scheme. Fainall attempts to use Lady Wishfort and her daughter's precarious social state of affairs as leverage to benefit Ms. Millamant's inheritance and all of Lady Wishfort's money through control of his wife's inheritance. However, he's foiled by way of Ms. Millamant pronouncing she can marry Sir Wilfull and Mirabell announcing that he has had declare to Mrs. Fainall's inheritance for the reason that before her marriage to Fainall. Once Fainall and Ms. Marwood leave, Ms. Millamant rescinds her offer to Sir Wilfull and she or he and Mirabell get hold of Lady Wishfort's blessing for marriage, her popularity having been stored through the 2 enthusiasts.