A Concordance to the Plays and Poems of Sir George Etherege

This ambitious work features forty of Etherege''s poems and three plays which are still popular after 300 years. The concordance provides an easy-to-use identification system that helps determine lexical shading isolate word clusters that suggest patterns of meaning and examine changes in language over several decades. Speech prefixes in the body of the concordance allow readers to see who is the speaker of a specific line of drama. An appendix of word frequency and cross-references to compound words are also included.