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- Title
‘The most constant and best entertainement’: Sir George Etherege's Reading in Ratisbon.
- Authors
BEAL, PETER
- Abstract
The article discusses restoration dramatist, poet, and diplomat Sir George Etherege, focusing particularly on the time he spent during his diplomatic appointment as British Resident to the German Imperial Diet at Ratisbon (now Regensburg) in Bavaria, Germany between 1685 and 1689. It reports that his removal from his friends in the society of London, England gave him an opportunity to read books, a pastime he had previously eschewed. Some of the publications he commented upon in his correspondence includes the play "A Fool's Preferment: or the Three Dukes of Dunstable" by Thomas D'Urfey, the play "The Squire of Alsatia" by Thomas Shadwell, and the verse satire "The Hind and the Panther" by John Dryden.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; UNITED Kingdom; BAVARIA (Germany); GERMANY; ETHEREGE, George, 1519-ca. 1588; BRITISH diplomats; HISTORY of books &; reading; SEVENTEENTH century; DRAMATISTS; LETTERS; RESTORATION drama; RESTORATION, Great Britain, 1660-1688; HISTORY of Bavaria, Germany, 1180-1777; BIOGRAPHY (Literary form)
- Publication
Library, 1988, Vol s6-X, Issue 2, p122
- ISSN
0024-2160
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/library/s6-X.2.122