Sir george etherege biography

English playwright (c. 1636 – c.

Sir george etherege biography

1691)

For the scholar, see George Etherege (scholar).

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 She Could in 1668, and The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter in 1676.^[4]

Biography

Early life

George Etherege was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, in about 1636, to George Etherege and Mary Powney, as the eldest of their six children.^[5] Educated at Lord Williams's School, where a school building was later named after him, he was rumoured to have attended the University of Cambridge,^[6] although John Dennis states that to his certain knowledge Etherege understood neither Greek nor Latin,^[4] thus raising doubts that he could have been there.^[7]

Etherege served as an apprentice to a lawyer and later studied law at Clement's Inn, London, one of the Inns of Cha