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She Stoops to Conquer and Other Comedies
Oliver Goldsmith
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Description for She Stoops to Conquer and Other Comedies
Paperback. This edition brings together four eighteenth-century comedies that illustrate the full variety of the century's drama: Fielding's The Modern Husband, Garrick and Colman's The Clandestine Marriage, Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, and O'Keeffe's Wild Oats. Editor(s): Wood, Nigel. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 324.
The Modern Husband * The Clandestine Marriage * She Stoops to Conquer * Wild Oats This edition brings together four eighteenth-century comedies that illustrate the full variety of the century's drama. Fielding's The Modern Husband , written before the 1737 Licensing Act that restricted political and social comment, depicts wife-pandering and widespread social corruption. In Garrick and Colman's The Clandestine Marriage two lovers marry in defiance of parental wishes and rue the consequences. She Stoops to Conquer explores the comic and not-so-comic consequences of mistaken identity, and in Wild Oats, the 'strolling player' Rover is a beacon of hope ... Read more
The Modern Husband * The Clandestine Marriage * She Stoops to Conquer * Wild Oats This edition brings together four eighteenth-century comedies that illustrate the full variety of the century's drama. Fielding's The Modern Husband , written before the 1737 Licensing Act that restricted political and social comment, depicts wife-pandering and widespread social corruption. In Garrick and Colman's The Clandestine Marriage two lovers marry in defiance of parental wishes and rue the consequences. She Stoops to Conquer explores the comic and not-so-comic consequences of mistaken identity, and in Wild Oats, the 'strolling player' Rover is a beacon of hope ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199553884
SKU
V9780199553884
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About Oliver Goldsmith
Nigel Wood has edited several volumes of critical essays on eighteenth-century writers, is co-editor with David Lodge of Modern Criticism and Theory, and General Editor of the 'Theory in Practice' series for the Open University Press.
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