The Man of Mode review
Apr. 20th, 2009 10:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearI swear I already reviewed The Man Of Mode by Sir George Etherege, but it doesn't appear in last week's entries, so I must have missed it somehow.
I read it on Friday, prompted by our trip to the theatre, since it's the first of the Restoration Comedies in a collection I bought some time ago. I don't know whether it was actually an inferior specimen, or whether the lack of performance meant the experience was lacking, but it just didn't grab me somehow. The plot seemed pedestrian, and the dialogue not that clever. I think I should leave Restoration Comedy to the stage, rather than reading it on the page.
I read it on Friday, prompted by our trip to the theatre, since it's the first of the Restoration Comedies in a collection I bought some time ago. I don't know whether it was actually an inferior specimen, or whether the lack of performance meant the experience was lacking, but it just didn't grab me somehow. The plot seemed pedestrian, and the dialogue not that clever. I think I should leave Restoration Comedy to the stage, rather than reading it on the page.
