She Stoops to Conquer and Other Comedies

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This edition brings together four eighteenth-century comedies that illustrate the full variety of the social and cultural mores of the time. 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 at a time of unrest. Part of the Oxford English Drama series, this edition has modern-spelling texts, critical introduction, wide-ranging annotation, and an informative bibliography. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Select Bibliography THE MODERN HUSBAND THE CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER WILD OATS Explanatory Notes Glossary

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• Authors: George Colman, Henry Fielding, David Garrick, Oliver Goldsmith, John O'Keeffe
• Assisted by: Nigel Wood (Editor), Nigel (Professor of Literature Wood (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.07.2008
• EAN: 9780199553884
• ISBN: 978-0-19-955388-4
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 198 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Oxford World's Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies