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Etherege, Sir George
(b. Oxfordshire, 1636; d. Ratisbon, 1694). “The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub” (1664); “She Would if She Could” (1668); “The Man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling Flutter” (1676); “The Trial of the Poets for the Bays.” “Works” in 1704. For Biography, see the “Biographia Britannica,” the “Dictionary of National Biography,” and The Fortnightly Review, first series.
