The Beaux Stratagem (NHB Drama Classics) - Softcover

George Farquhar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854591541 ISBN 13: 9781854591548

Publisher: Nick Hern Books, 2015

Synopsis

Number 7 in Nick Hern Book's Drama Classics series, providing great drama at a great price. Includes the full text, plus a short introduction that takes in the life of the playwright, the plot and background, and explores the themes of the play.

First produced at the Theatre Royal, now the site of Her Majesty's Theatre, in the Haymarket, London, on March 8, 1707, George Farquhar's last great Restoration comedy follows two charming, dissolute young men who have blown their fortunes in giddy London. Shamed and debt-ridden, they flee to provincial Lichfield. Their Stratagem: to marry for money.

Lodged at the local inn, posing as master and servant, they encounter a teeming variety of human obstacles: a crooked landlord, a fearsome highwayman, a fervent French Count, a maid on the make, a drunken husband, a furious butler, a natural healer and a strange, turbulent priest.

But their greatest obstacle is love. When the Beaux meet their match in Dorinda and Mrs Sullen they are most at risk, for in love they might be truly discovered.

George Farquhar's final play is a fabulous carnal comedy. Introduced by Simon Trussler, this established masterpiece is both accurate and actable, Ideal for study and performance.

About this title

Review:

One of the last of the Restoration comedies, it is, nonetheless, as frothy as deliciously frothy as anything in the canon. --Time Out

About the Author:

Ann Blake is Honorary Fellow at the School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia

About this edition

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1854591541
• ISBN 13: 9781854591548
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Simon Trussler