Marriage A-la-Mode

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This article is about the play by John Dryden; Marriage á-la-mode is also the name of a series of pictures by William Hogarth.

Marriage a la Mode (1672) has often been praised as John Dryden’s best comedic endeavor 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 . . . one of the most thoughtful treatments of sex and marriage that Restoration comedy can show.”^{[citation needed]}