
The "Man of Mode"
George Etherege(Author)
John Barnard(Editor)
Methuen Drama (Publisher)
Published on 22. October 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-7136-8193-2 (ISBN)
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Description
Verbal brilliance, urbane sophistication and sexual conquest are the measures of success for the fashionable set who watched themselves being represented on the Restoration stage. Yet idealisation and satire, as this edition of Etherege's masterpiece shows, are flip sides of the same coin, and the play betrays deep anxieties about ridicule and social failure. Any London beau would emulate Dorimant, the unconscionable rake who loves 'em and leaves 'em, but he would also secretly fear that he in fact resembled Sir Fopling Flutter, the model of all Restoration fops, in his vanity and affectation. The women fare no better, being offered for identification Dorimant's discarded mistress Loveit, scheming for revenge, or the beautiful but hard-headed Harriet, who dares Dorimant to woo her in the country, for 'I know all beyond Hyde Park is a desert to you and that no gallantry can draw you farther'.
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Series
Edition
Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations, music
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
218 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7136-8193-2 (9780713681932)
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Persons
John Barnard is Professor Emeritus, University of Leeds. His research interests are in Restoration literature, Keats and the second generation Romantics, textual criticism, and book history. Recent publications include The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Volume IV 1557-1695 (2002).