A character in this play convinces his love interest to judge the clothes of everyone on the Mall, and be “malicious on all the ill-fashioned things we meet.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this play in which Lady Woodvill reluctantly consents to a match between her daughter Harriet and the rake Dorimant.
ANSWER: The Man of Mode (by George Etherege)
[10e] Overly-fashionable fops like Sir Fopling Flutter, who titles The Man of Mode, were popular comic characters in drama from this historical period, which is named for Charles II’s return to the throne.
ANSWER: Restoration era [or English Restoration; or Stuart Restoration]
[10m] A “fake” marriage ceremony turns out to have been legal all along in this author’s play The Town Fop. “The Banish'd Cavaliers” is the subtitle of a play this author set during the Carnival in Naples.
ANSWER: Aphra Behn (The play is The Rover.)
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