The Plays of George Etherege

by Michael Cordner

Book Overview

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. His first play, The Comical Revenge (1664), with its partisan portrait of the Cavalier gentry during the last years of the Revolution and its bravura interweaving of four separate plots, deftly caught an early Restoration mood and enjoyed great popularity. Its successor, She Would...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521288797
• ISBN13: 9780521288798
• Release Date: November 1982
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"