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This 5 page report discusses two 17th century Restoration comedies that consider the relationships between men and women and the role that each plays, or is assigned to, in their societies. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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female independence that was unique for its particular period in history. Behns work is of particular interest since she is generally thought of as Englands first "professional" writer who was
also female. Each play offers readers and audiences of the 21st century a chance to peer back across the centuries to understand some of the attitudes and ideas of England
in the last half of the 17th century. More often than not, modern audiences will find the situations as humorous as the authors intended them to be more than 300
years ago. "The Man of Mode" "The Man of Mode" follows a philanderer and ner-do-well named Dorimant on his search for a beautiful heiress, discarding other women as
he goes. Jays (1994) explains that the supposed model for the character of Dorimant was John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, "the baddest boy of English literature, living hard, and dead
by 33" (pp. 54). As is noted before the action of the play even begins, Etherege states through the mouthpiece of Sir Car Scroope in the prologue that there is
no shortage of material that may be used for "drama" by making not to the audience that: "So among you there starts up every day / Some new unheard-of fool
for us to play" (Internet source). The prologue alone suggests that Etherege was offering the audience a chance of considering the truths about the weaknesses and duplicity of their own
world. In fact, Jays points out in review of a 1994 production of the play in London that: "Restoration drama is nothing if not self-conscious. Etherege describes people who are
aware that sexuality and gender roles are up for grabs, an outfit you assemble as appropriate" (pp. 54). Such self-obsession being the case, Etherege sets out to show how
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