George Etherege
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Sir George Etherege was an English dramatist. He wrote the plays The Comical Revenge or, Love in a Tub in 1664, She Would If She Could in 1668, and The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter in 1676.
Frontispiece to The Man of Mode (1676).
Merry Gang
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The Merry Gang was a group of aristocrats associated with the court of Charles II of England during the Stuart Restoration of 1660. The gang was centred on John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, who stat
George Etherege
…Even the drunken shoemaker was a real character, who made his fortune from being brought to public notice in this fashion. Etherege was part of the Merry Gang (as Andrew Marvell described them). The Merry Gang flourished for about 15 years after 1665 and included John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester; Henry…
Lord Rochester, the group's leading member
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