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The "Man of Mode"

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The "Man of Mode"

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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'.

Author Biography

John 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).
Release date NZ
October 19th, 2007
Audiences
  • A / AS level
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Undergraduate
Contributor
  • Edited by John Barnard
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Edition
Revised edition
Illustrations
illustrations, music
Imprint
Methuen Drama
Pages
224
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dimensions
129x198x14
ISBN-13
9780713681932
Product ID
1957977

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