• Sir George Etherege (c. 1636 – c. 10 May 1692) was an English dramatist. He wrote the plays The Comical Revenge or, Love in a Tub in 1664, She Would If...
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  • George Etherege or Ethrygg (Latin: Edrycus) (fl. 1588), was an English classical scholar and physician. Etherege, born at Thame, Oxfordshire, was admitted...
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  • of Lords. Back in London, Rochester finds his "Merry Gang" friends, George Etherege and Charles Sackville, in a bawdy house. Rochester encounters on the...
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    Charles himself, George Villiers, John Wilmot, Charles Sedley, Charles Sackville, and playwrights William Wycherley and George Etherege. Following the tone...
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    Dorimant, the seminal irresistible Restoration rake, at the première of George Etherege's Man of Mode (1676). Betterton's position remained unassailed through...
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    british-history.ac.uk(accessed 18 January 2008) Etherege, Sir George, Letters of Sir George Etherege, ed. Bracher, p. 118 Lasocki, David, Paisible, James...
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    unsentimental or "hard" comedies of John Dryden, William Wycherley, and George Etherege, which reflect the atmosphere at Court, and celebrate an aristocratic...
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    Killigrew; Sir Charles Sedley; the playwrights William Wycherley and George Etherege; and George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham. Gilbert Burnet wrote of him...
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  • of, called Pygmies by Joshua Barnes 1676 The Man of Mode (play) – George Etherege English-Adventures by a Person of Honor – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of...
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    The Man of Mode (category Plays by George Etherege)
    The Man of Mode, or, Sir Fopling Flutter is a Restoration comedy by George Etherege, written in 1676. The play is set in Restoration London and follows...
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