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OverviewVerbal 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'. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sir George Etherege , John BarnardPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Methuen Drama Edition: Revised edition Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.218kg ISBN: 9780713681932ISBN 10: 0713681934 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 22 October 2007 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , A / AS level , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationJohn Barnard is Professor Emeritus, University of Leeds. Hisresearch interests are in Restoration literature, Keats and the secondgeneration Romantics, textual criticism, and book history. Recentpublications include The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Volume IV 1557-1695 (2002). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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