Etheredge, Sir George, the originator of the kind of comedy “containing a vein of lively humour and witty dialogue which were afterwards displayed by Congreve and Farquhar”; has been called the “founder of the comedy of intrigue”; he was the author of three clever plays, entitled “Love in a Tub,” “She Would if She Could,” and “Sir Fopling Flutter” (1636‒1694).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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