Etherege, Sir George
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Etherege, Sir George or Sir George Etheredge, (1636–91/2). His first comedy,
The Comical Revenge, or Love in a Tub, was performed in 1664. The serious portions are in rhymed heroics, setting a fashion that was followed for some years, while the lively and realistic comic underplot, in prose, was the foundation of the English comedy of manners of
Congreve and
Goldsmith; Etherege drew his inspiration in part from
Molière's farces and from Italian mime. In 1668
She Wou'd if she Cou'd was performed. His best play,
The Man of Mode, was performed in 1676. He was knighted,
c.1680, and was an envoy of James II in Ratisbon (Regensburg), 1685–9; his
Letterbook, recording his stay and his nonchalant attitude to his duties was edited in 1928 by S. Rosenfeld. His polished and fashionable comedies were savagely attacked as immoral and coarse by the more genteel generation of
Steele, and the 19th cent. found them formless and plotless, but they now enjoy a high reputation.
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THE WORLD OF PAPERBACKS.
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; ...Archbishop Gilbert Sheldon and Sir Thomas Isham, a burlesque...hoax constructed by Sir George Etherege and a playful cabal of...daughter of Stuart pivot George (Villiers), first Duke...younger brothers Francis and George, Lady Mary wore her fame...
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The content of form.(fashion; In Defense of Elegance)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: National Review; 10/28/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...the French, the mode. Consider Sir George Etherege's 1676 comedy The Man of Mode, featuring the ridiculous Sir Fopling Flutter, based on an actual fop, Beau Hewitt. Sir Fopling is ''the prince of fops...
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; ...preserved at Nottingham, on the death of Sir Thomas Isham (1681); and the elegant...identification, linked, first by Sir Edmund Gosse, in 1885, to Katherine...speculative candidate"; and (4) Sir George Etherege and a playful cabal of Restoration...
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Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...London Stage for performance data of the early 1660s--Sir Henry Herbert (Master of the Revels), Samuel Pepys...performance on the title pages of eight English plays: Sir George Etherege's The Comical Revenge, James Shirley's The Court...
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First, a poet; Literary biography; The libertine Lord Rochester.(Books and Arts)(Review)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 2/3/2001; 700+ words
; ...was feted in the writings of his friends, notably in Sir George Etherege's comedy, "The Man of Mode". Just before he died...intermittently. Anecdotes concerning Rochester and his crony George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, are retailed without...
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Pop the corks! We invented champers.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 7/12/1998; 700+ words
; ...which adds the fizz. Mr Stevenson also uses literature of the time to prove champagne was well known in England. Sir George Etherege mentioned 'sparkling Champaign' in his 1676 play The Man Of Mode. Mr Stevenson says English glass was stronger...
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14 MARCH 1687 ; Days like these
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; SIR GEORGE ETHEREGE, playwright and diplomat, writes to the Duke of Buckingham ( above) from Ratisbon, Bavaria: "As there is none [in England...
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Sir George Etherege
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sir George Etherege , 1636-1692, English dramatist. His witty, licentious comedies...The Man of Mode (1676), is famous for its creation of the great fop, Sir Fopling Flutter. His years spent as English minister to Ratisbon (1685...
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Etherege, Sir George
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Etherege, Sir George (1634–91), English dramatist...verse drama with a comic prose subplot. Etherege explored this latter style further in his...just as the poet Bellair is supposed to be Etherege himself.
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