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Three Restoration Comedies Etherege - The Man of Mode - Wycherley - The Country Wife - Congreve - Love for Love

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ISBN-10: 014043027X

ISBN-13: 9780140430271

Edition: 1986

Authors: Gamini Salgado, William M. Tydeman, George Etherege, George Etherege

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Artificial, irreverent, and bawdy, the Restoration theatre came as a violent reaction to the strict ordinance of the Commonwealth. This text contains three comedies from the period.
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Book details

List price: $11.95
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/26/1976
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

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).