"Marriage a-la-Mode" was an early and influential comedy of manners, later to be developed by Etherege and Wycherly. During the play Dryden deploys verbal and theatrical wit which is in experimental contrast to a loftier vein of poetic tragi-comedy. With its unusual combination of two plots, this play affords a complex exploration of the language of social exchange and personal feeling between typically well-born men and women of the late 17th-century English world.
- ISBN10 071363412X
- ISBN13 9780713634129
- Publish Date 25 April 1991 (first published 1 June 1981)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 June 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint A & C Black Publishers Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 160
- Language English