• 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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  • September 1986; Globe Theatre, January 1987 Harriet in The Man of Mode (George Etherege), RSC Swan Theatre, July 1988; The Pit, April 1989 Lady Macbeth in...
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    Winter's Tale (1982), directed by Jane Howell. "L'uomo alla moda", by George Etherege, directed by Carlo Di Stefano, 15 October 1969. "Under two flags",...
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    Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, and the playwrights William Wycherley and George Etherege. Following the tone set by the monarch himself, these men distinguished...
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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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    (1913–1965) lived for some time on Boulter's Island English dramatist Sir George Etherege (ca.1636 – ca.1692) was born in Maidenhead. The town was home to Colonel...
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    included George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, Richard Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Carbery, Charles Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, Sir George Etherege, Sir Charles...
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  • Bristol Old Vic in 1999. She has appeared onstage in productions of George Etherege's The Man of Mode (2007), Harley Granville-Barker's The Voysey Inheritance...
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    were on occasion extremely camp, in such plays as The Man of Mode by George Etherege and Restoration by Edward Bond at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC)...
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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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    and Richard Brinsley Sheridan Restoration comedy, as practiced by George Etherege, Aphra Behn and John Vanbrugh Sentimental comedy, as practiced by Colley...
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  • British sidecarcross rider Emerson Etheridge, late US Representative George Etherege, English dramatist James Etheridge, English MP Joanne Etheridge, Australian...
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    unsentimental or "hard" comedies of John Dryden, William Wycherley, and George Etherege reflected the atmosphere at Court and celebrated with frankness an...
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  • Backwoods (1987). She found work on the stage in the 1970s, performing in George Etherege's comedy She Would If She Could for the Nuffield Theatre Company at...
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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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    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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  • The Tempest (1670); and plays by Thomas Shadwell, William Wycherley, George Etherege, and Sir Robert Howard, among others. Dryden appears to have had a...
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    She Would If She Could (category Plays by George Etherege)
    She Would If She Could is a 1668 comedy play by the English writer George Etherege. It was originally staged at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre by the...
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    and Richard Brinsley Sheridan Restoration comedy, as practiced by George Etherege, Aphra Behn and John Vanbrugh Sentimental comedy, as practiced by Colley...
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    Lennox in Shakespeare's Macbeth, Young Bellair in The Man of Mode by George Etherege, Lord Dion in Philaster by Beaumont and Fletcher, and Guyomar in The...
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  • Ervine (1883–1971, Ireland/England) Louis Esson (1878–1943, Australia) George Etherege (c. 1635–1691, England) Solomon Ettinger (1800/1803–1856, Poland) in...
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    as Sir Charles Sedley, Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, and George Etherege. Though many of the poems attributed to Rochester were actually by...
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    stolen or some other putatively amusing circumstance has arisen. George Etherege's 1664 comedy The Comical Revenge or, Love in a Tub included a barrel-wearing...
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  • Sassoon Sir Aubrey de Vere Sir Charles Sedley Sir Edmund Gosse Sir George Etherege Sir Henry Newbolt Sir Henry Wotton Sir John Beaumont Sir John Davies...
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