id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2253 George Etherege - Wikipedia .html text/html 1692 194 71 George Etherege was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, around 1636, to George Etherege and Mary Powney, as the eldest of six children.[5] Educated at Lord Williams's School, where a school building was later named after him, he was also 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] After a silence of eight years, he came forward with only one further play: The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter, widely considered the best comedy of manners written in England before the days of Congreve. He died in Paris, probably in 1691,[4] as Narcissus Luttrell notes this as a recent event in February 1692, identifying Sir George Etherege as the late King James's Ambassador to Vienna.[4] ^ "Sir George Etherege (British dramatist) Encyclopædia Britannica". Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2253.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2253.txt