The Man of Mode

Author(s): Etherege, George (Sir)
Note: George Etherege (1636 ? – 1691)
Date of composition:
  • 1676
Date of first performance: 1676
Date of first publication: 1676
Genre (Annals): Comedy

HIERONIMO/EMOTHE text(s): 1976 modern edition by Robert G. Lawrence.
  • 1676 quarto Macock, John Herringman, Henry single-play print
      ESTC: R38861 E3374
      EEBO-TCP: A38694 - Huntington Library - EEBO record – TCP HTML XML
  • 1684 quarto Macock, John Herringman, Henry single-play print
      ESTC: R10405 E3375
      EEBO-TCP: University of Illinois Library - EEBO record
  • 1693 quarto Warren, T. Herringman, Henry single-play print
      ESTC: R10293 E3376
      EEBO-TCP: University of Illinois Library - EEBO record TCP HTML XML
  • 1704 octavo Herringman, Henry play in print collection
      ESTC: T138423

      Observations: Title of collection: The works of Sir George Etherege. Published in London. Sold by J. Tonson

  • STC/WING: WING E3374
  • ESTC: 

Early Performances

  • Company: The Duke’s Company Venue: Dorset Garden Date: 1676
    Cast:
      Location: Venue type: commercial theatre
      Note: 11 March
      Information source: Nicoll, Allardyce. A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Volume 1 Restoration Drama 1660-1700. 1952.

    Modern editions

    • Fisk, Deborah Payne, ed. Four Restoration Libertine Plays. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Oxford English Drama.Oxford World’s Classics.
    • Womersley, David, ed. Restoration Drama: An Anthology. London: Blackwell, 2000. Blackwell Anthologies.
    • Jensen, H. James, ed. The Sensational Restoration. Indiana University Press: Bloomington, 1996. Indiana Masterpiece Editions.
    • Cordner, Michael, ed. The Plays of Sir George Etherege. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Plays by Renaissance and Restoration Dramatists.
    • Barnard, John, ed. The Man of Mode. Etherege, George. London: E. Benn, 1979. New Mermaids.
    • Conghan, John, ed. The Man of Mode. Etherege, George. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1973. Fountainwell Drama Texts.
    • McMillin, Scott, ed. Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy. New York: W.W. Norton, 1973. Norton Critical Edition.
    • Salgado, Gamini Three Restoration Comedies: The Man of Mode; The Country Wife; Love for Love. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1968.
    • Carnochan, W. B., ed. The Man of Mode. Etherege, George. London: Edward Arnold, 1967. Regents Restoration Drama.
    • Gosse, Sir Edmund . Restoration Plays. London: Dent, 1932. Everyman’s Library.

    Select Bibliography: Criticism

    • Baker, Oliver R. "Black Aces: Double Entendre in 'The Man of Mode'". ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews. 2013, vol. 1, 26, p. 13-16.
    • Marsh, Sarah Grace. "'Not Made Monstrous by a Magnifying Glass': Microscopes, Vision and Sir George Etherege's The Man of Mode, or Sir Fopling Flutter". New England Theatre Journal. 2008, vol. 2, 19, p. 33-52.
    • Rosenfeld, Nancy. "'The Man of Mode': The Mode of Man". McNeese Review. 2004, 42, p. 20-40.
    • Hampton, Simon. "Rochester, 'The Man of Mode' and Mrs. Barry". Ed. Fisher, Nicholas. That Second Bottle: Essays on John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000, p. 165-78.
    • Alexander, Todd A. "Echoes of the Masque: The Physical Aspects of Etherege's 'The Man of Mode'". Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research. 1999, vol. 2, 14, p. 22-37.
    • Sunde, Karen Bickel. "More than Fancy's Image: A New Rhetorical Analysis of Argument Structures in 'The Man of Mode' and 'The Rover I'". Dissertation Abstracts International. 1996, vol. 8, 56, .
    • Fisher, Judith W. "The Power of Performance: Sir George Etherege's 'The Man of Mode'". Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research. 1995, vol. 1, 10, p. 15-28.
    • Plaisant, Michèle. "Modes et modèles amoureux dans 'The Man of Mode' de Sir George Etherege". Bulletin de la Societe d'Etudes Anglo-Americaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siecles. 1993, 37, p. 39-50.
    • Walsh, Paul. "Performance, Space, and Seduction in George Etherege's 'The Man of Mode' (Dorset Garden Theatre, 1676)". Essays in Theatre/Etudes Théâtrales. 1993, vol. 2, 11, p. 123-31.
    • Berglund, Lisa. "The Language of the Libertines: Subversive Morality in 'The Man of Mode'". SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 1990, vol. 3, 30, p. 369-86.
    • Ogée, Frédéric. "'All the world will be seen in the park tonight': seeing and being seen in Etherege's 'The Man of Mode'". Restoration. 1989, vol. 2, 13, p. 86-94.
    • Staves, Susan. "The Secrets of Genteel Identity in 'The Man of Mode': Comedy of Manners vs. the Courtesy Book". Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. 1989, 19, p. 117-128.
    • Rigaud, N. J. "Les faiblesses d'un héros: Dorimant dans 'The Man of Mode'". Études anglaises. 1988, vol. 1, 41, p. 24-36.
    • Loreau, Jean-Claude. "Convention et liberté dans 'The Man of Mode' d'Etherege". XVIIe-XVIIIe. 1987, 25, p. 39-53.
    • Imbert, Anne-Marie. "Conventions et communication dans 'The Man of Mode', or Sir Fopling Flutter, de Sir George Etherege". XVIIe-XVIIIe. 1987, 25, p. 29-38.
    • Rigaud, Nadia. "'The Man of Mode': Portrait d'une société". Ed. Rigaud, Nadia. Aspects du théâtre anglais (1594-1730). Aix-en-Provence: Univ. of Provence for Centre Aixois de Recherches Anglaises, 1987, p. 73-83.
    • Loreau, Jean-Claude. "Convention et liberté dans 'The Man of Mode' d'Etherege". Bulletin de la Societe d'Etudes Anglo-Americaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siecles. 1987, 25, p. 39-53.
    • Rigaud, Nadia. "Etherege: 'The Man of Mode': Bibliographie sélective et critique". Bulletin de la Societe d'Etudes Anglo-Americaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siecles. 1987, 25, p. 7-17.
    • Imbert, Anne-Marie. "Conventions et communication dans 'The Man of Mode', or, Sir Fopling Flutter, de Sir George Etherege". Bulletin de la Societe d'Etudes Anglo-Americaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siecles. 1987, 25, p. 29-38.
    • Wess, Robert. "Utopian Rhetoric in 'The Man of Mode'". The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. 1986, vol. 2, 27, p. 141-161.
    • Hume, Robert D. "Elizabeth Barry's First Roles and the Cast of 'The Man of Mode'". Theatre History Studies. 1985, 5, p. 16-19.
    • Plank, Jeffrey. "Augustan Conversion of Pastoral: Waller, Denham, and Etherege's 'The Man of Mode'". Essays in Literature. 1985, vol. 2, 12, p. 189-199.
    • Henshaw, Wandalie. "Sir Fopling Flutter; or the Key to the Man of Mode". Essays in Theatre. 1985, vol. 2, 3, p. 98-107.
    • Barnard, John. "Point of View in 'The Man of Mode'". Essays in Criticism: A Quarterly Journal of Literary Criticism. 1984, vol. 4, 34, p. 285-308.
    • Hughes, Derek. "Play and Passion in 'The Man of Mode'". Comparative Drama. 1981, vol. 3, 15, p. 231-257.
    • Zimbardo, Rose A. "Of Women, Comic Imitation of Nature, and Etherege's 'The Man of Mode'". SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 1981, vol. 3, 21, p. 373-87.
    • Wertheim, Albert. "The Unrestrained and the Unconventional: Etherege's 'The Man of Mode'". Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht. 1980, 13, p. 102-09.
    • Stupnikov, I. V. "O nekotorykh osobennostiakh struktury komedii Dzhordzha Eteridzha 'Rab mody'. (Structural features of George Etherege's comedy 'The Man of Mode'.)". Problemy istorii zarubezhnoi literatury. 1979, vol. 1, 1979, p. 74-80.
    • Dollerup, Cay. "'A Danish Serenade': A Note on Etherege's 'The Man of Mode' (1676)". Ed. Caie, Graham D.; Chesnutt, Michael; Christensen, Lis; Færch, Claus. Occasional Papers 1976-1977. Copenhagen: Univ.-forl. i Kobenhavn, 1978, p. 103-105.
    • Corman, Brian. "Interpreting and Misinterpreting 'The Man of Mode'". Papers on Language and Literature: A Journal for Scholars and Critics of Language and Literature. 1977, 13, p. 35-53.
    • Martin, Leslie H. "Past and parody in 'The Man of Mode'". Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. 1976, 16, p. 363-76.
    • Borkat, Roberta F. S. "Vows, Prayers, and Dice: Comic Values in 'The Man of Mode'". University of Dayton Review. 1976, vol. 3, 12, p. 121-31.
    • Martin, Leslie H. "Past and Parody in 'The Man of Mode'". SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 1976, vol. 3, 16, p. 363-76.
    • Hume, Robert D. "Reading and Misreading 'The Man of Mode'". Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts. 1972, 14, p. 1-11.
    • Berman, Ronald. "The Comic Passions of 'The Man of Mode'". SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 1970, vol. 3, 10, p. 459-68.
    • Hayman, John G. "Dorimant and the Comedy of a Man of Mode". Modern Language Quarterly. 1969, 30, p. 183-197.
    • Krause, David. "The Defaced Angel: A Concept of Satanic Grace in Etherege's 'The Man of Mode'". Drama Survey. 1969, 7, p. 87-103.
    • Davies, Paul C. "The State of Nature and the State of War: A Reconsideration of 'The Man of Mode'". University of Toronto Quarterly: A Canadian Journal of the Humanities. 1969, 39, p. 53-62.
    • Cox, R. S., Jr. "Richard Flecknoe and 'The Man of Mode'". Modern Language Quarterly. 1968, 29, p. 183-189.
    • Auffret, J. M. "'The Man of Mode' & 'The Plain Dealer': Common Origin and Parallels". Etudes Anglaises. 1966, 19, p. 209-222.

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