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Marriage à la Mode is a Restoration comedy by John Dryden first performed in London in 1673 by the King’s Company. It is written in a combination of prose blank verse and heroic couplets. It has often been praised as Dryden’s best comedic endeavour and Sutherland accounts for this by observing that the comic scenes are beautifully written and Dryden has taken care to connect them with the serious plot by a number of effective links. He writes with . . .