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The Plays of Sir George Etherege

The Plays of Sir George Etherege( )
Author: Etherege, George
Cordner, Michael
Series title:Plays by Renaissance and Restoration Dramatists Ser.
ISBN:978-0-521-28879-8
Publication Date:Oct 1982
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $49.95
Book Description:

Even among the richly talented generation who wrote for the stage during the Restoration, Etherege was, from the start, considered to be a very special kind of innovator. This edition includes annotated texts of all three plays, prefaced by an account of Etherege's life and the reception of his plays on the stage and in criticism.

Book Details
Pages:364
Detailed Subjects: Drama / European / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13.8 x 21.5 x 2.6 cm
Book Weight:0.459 Kilograms
Author Biography
Etherege, George (Author)
George Etherege helped to develop the comedy of manners, or society comedy, in which the brilliant world of wits and fops is both portrayed and satirized. In his best-known comedy, The Man of Mode (1676), Dorimant, the central character, is hardly a model for how the young man about town should behave. Etherege is a cool observer of manners. Sir Fopling Flutter is clearly a Frenchified fop and dandy, yet he is also lovable. Harriet is a prototype of the witty, liberated woman-coquettish, teasing, and intelligent. Etherege's other comedies are The Comical Revenge, or Love in a Tub (1664) and She Would If She Could (1668).

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