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Man of Mode (revised) New Mermaids

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ISBN-10: 0713681934

ISBN-13: 9780713681932

Edition: 2007 (Revised)

Authors: George Etherege, John Barnard

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"The Man of Mode" is another addition to the New Mermaids series. This is a revised reprint of the classic drama text that includes a new section on recent stage history and critical interpretation.
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Book details

List price: $13.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 10/22/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.440
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).

Acknowledgements
Note to Revised Edition
Introduction
About the Play
Summary of the Plot
The Play
Realism and Comedy
Dorimant and the Moral Issue
A Society in Flux
'Wildness' and 'Extravagance'
'Complaisance' and Manners
An Uneasy Balance: Cynicism or Romance?
Recent Stage History
Note on the Text
Early Stage History and Reception
The Author
Further Reading
Abbreviations
The Man of Mode
Dedication
Prologue
Dramatis Personae
Text
Epilogue
Dr Staggins's Settings of Dorimant's Song and Sir Car Scroope's Song
The Bullies' Song