SOURCE: Phillips, Edward. “The Modern Poets: George Etherege.” In Theatrum Poetarum, Vol. 2, p. 53. London: Charles Smith, 1675.

In the following excerpt, Phillips briefly identifies Etherege as a popular contemporary dramatist.

George Etheridge [is] a Comical writer of the present Age; whose Two Comedies, Love in a Tub, and She would if She could, for pleasant Wit, and no bad Oeconomy, are judg'd not unworthy the Applause they have met with.