- Hardcover: 204 pages
- Publisher: Wildside Press (September 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1434485455
- ISBN-13: 978-1434485458
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.5 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 499 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Oliver Goldsmith's comedy was a milestone: yes, it's fast and funny, almost farcical at times, a great night out, and so on, but it's also a psychological masterpiece written at the time when English society began its stately progress towards its admirable class system. Sunday Times "A bomproof comedy...Oliver Goldsmith's play is about the clash between town and country, between varying degrees of pretension." Robert Dawson Scott, The Times, 04.06.08 'Against Sean Crowley's elegant blank canvas of a set, which allows a home to be mistaken for an inn, Goldsmith's themes of class and snobbery unfold with delicious clarity. The performances are both ticklish and sophisticated - the actors step outside the action to address the audience directly - and yet played for traditional laughs and tremendous relish.' Elisabeth Mahoney, Gaurdian, 01 May 2009
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Oliver Goldsmith (1728?-1774) was an Irish writer and physician known for his novel "The Vicar of Wakefield" (1766), his pastoral poem "The Deserted Village" (1770), as well as his plays "The Good-natur'd Man" (1768) and "She Stoops to Conquer" (1771).
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Enter MR. WOODWARD, dressed in black, and holding a handkerchief to his eyes. Read the first page
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Among the Most Read and Performed English Comedies,
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This review is from: She Stoops to Conquer (Paperback)
Few English plays dating from the eighteenth century appeal to modern audiences. For much of that period comedies were characterized by sentimentality, humanitarianism, and moralizing. Independently, the playwrights Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan rejected this moralizing mode and returned to a humorous, mildly satirical form of comedy.In a short period they created three plays that are still enjoyed today - She Stoops to Conquer (Goldsmith, 1773), The School for Scandal (Sheridan, 1775) and The Rivals (Sheridan, 1777). In recent months I have read all three play. All are quite good, but I especially liked She Stoops to Conquer and The School for Scandal. While The School for Scandal is widely admired for its witty dialogue, She Stoops to Conquer offers the most hilarious situations. It is great fun to read. The basic theme is familiar. The guardians, her father Mr. Hardcastle and her aunt Mrs. Hardcastle, have arranged a suitable marriage for young Miss Hardcastle. She, of course, has other plans. Oliver Goldsmith transformed this overly used situation into delightful comedy. The plot is complicated by a shy suitor, friends with their own plans of elopement, and an unruly prankster, all leading to utter confusion in the rustic Hardcastle household. I quickly became engaged with the ridiculous happenings and I read She Stoops to Conquer in a single sitting. The inexpensive Dover edition has only a few footnotes, but footnotes are not really required. I give this entertaining play five stars.
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Excellent,
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This review is from: She Stoops to Conquer (Paperback)
This play is a rollicking satire on the British caste system of that era, seen through the mischief, mayhem, and mistaken identities of this work. Almost a must-read!
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Is this supposed to be funny?,
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This review is from: She Stoops to Conquer (Nick Hern Books) (Paperback)
I have to read She Stoops to Conquer for school and it is absolutly terrible. For a play that is supposed to be funny and one of the most comical plays of its time, I find it completly boring. I am not discriminating against the "classics", as I have read many which I have highly enjoyed, but reading this play is a waste of time.
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