The First Modern Comedies: The Significance of Etherege, Wycherley, and Congreve
- ISBN-10
- 0674498518
- ISBN-13
- 9780674498518
- Category
- Literary Criticism / General
- Pages
- 274
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1959
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- Norman Norwood Holland
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