She Stoops to Conquer and Other Comedies (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Goldsmith, Oliver; Fielding, Henry; Garrick, David; Colman, George; O'Keeffe, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199553882 ISBN 13: 9780199553884

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2008

Synopsis

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 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.
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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199553882
• ISBN 13: 9780199553884
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 394
• Editor: Wood Nigel