Timeline
Lifetime:
1628 -
1687
Passed: ≈
337 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
George Villiers
Books by George Villiers
Rehearsal
Satire
Comedy
Drama
Drama
Tragedy
Comedy
Satire
Parody
Restoration
Mockery
Criticism
Theater
Metafiction
Playwriting
Dryden
The Rehearsal is a metafictional comedy by George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, that satirizes the bombastic and overblown tragedies popular during the Restoration period in England. The play follows the efforts of three men, Bayes, Johnson, and Smit...