Rake [ Politics & Society / Character / Social interaction ]
… figure’s potential for social disruption as an upper-class male magnifies the political and ideological instability at play throughout the eighteenth century. The rake archetype made his foray into the literary world through the comedies of … that the authors of what can be called rakish narratives -plots in which the rake archetype is either the protagonist or plays a significant part in the action- were almost exclusively male, and identified themselves as rakes, or associated … The Provoked Wife (1697), where the rake figure is presented as a brutish, philandering husband. One of the most popular plays of the time, and as such one of the most frequently studied by scholars, is George Etherege’s 1676 The Man of Mode …
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