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She Stoops to Conquer
Oliver Goldsmith
Book Overview:
n She Stoops to Conquer, or The Mistakes of a Night, a young lady pretends to be a servant in order to win the notice of a young man who is painfully shy around women of his own class. Hilarious misadventures and mayhem ensue before matters are neatly wrapped up at the end.
n She Stoops to Conquer, or The Mistakes of a Night, a young lady pretends to be a servant in order to win the notice of a young man who is painfully shy around women of his own class. Hilarious misadventures and mayhem ensue before matters are neatly wrapped up at the end.
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MARLOW. Well, if he supplies us with these, we shall want no farther connexion. We are to turn to the right, did you say?
TONY. No, no; straight forward. I'll just step myself, and show you a piece of the way. (To the Landlord.) Mum!
LANDLORD. Ah, bless your heart, for a sweet, pleasant—damn'd mischievous son of a whore. [Exeunt.]
ACT THE SECOND.
SCENE—An old-fashioned House.
Enter HARDCASTLE, followed by three or four awkward Servants.
HARDCASTLE. Well, I hope you are perfect in the table exercise I have been teaching you these three days. You all know your posts and your places, and can show that you have been used to good company, without ever stirring from home.
OMNES. Ay, ay.
HARDCASTLE. When company comes you are not to pop out and stare, and then run in again, like frightened rabbits. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Long on my classics 'bucket list'; much of the conviviality has been lost due to passing conventionality; but still a play that anyone interested in English literature will want to be aquatinted with. While this romcon was not my favorite play I still found it an entertaining example of 'protested l
I am fortunate to have seen She Stoops to Conquer on the stage before reading it, and that recollection carried me through the reading. It is a lighthearted comedy of misunderstandings, very well written but so shallow as to be a bit tiresome on the page.
Young Mr. Marlow has been sent down to the co
One of the great comedies in the history of theater, produced first in 1773, seen by me in live production once, at the Stratford (Ontario) Festival in 1972, and now again I listened to in a LA Theater Works audiotaped live production featuring, among other people Joanne Whaley and James Marsters (k
I was hoping to enjoy this more than I did. It seemed a bit too farcical for my taste. The best thing I can say is that it was short.
Re-reading for a bit of fun - still amusing!
Considering this was written in the late 1700s, it feels remarkably fresh and very accessible, and some of the jokes are even funny by today's standards, which is an impressive thing for Goldsmith to have pulled off!
It's classic Restoration fare - bawdy hu
A Question of Class
24 July 2017
What is it with romantic comedies? I grab a book from a second hand bookshop containing some comedies from times past, and of the fours, plays three of them are romantic comedies. Okay, the other compilation of comedies that I had was a little better, but with regards
أعـتـرف أنّ أكـثـر الأشـيـاء بـهـجـة -بـالـنـسـبـة لي- بـعـد مـتـعـة مـطـالـعـة الـكـتـب، هـي مـشـاهـدة فـيـلـم سـيـنـمـائي أو تـجـسـيـد مـسـرحي لـ روايـة أنـهـيـت قـراءتـهـا. مـؤخـرًا كـان الـرّب كـريـمًـا مـعي، إذ هـيّـأ لي مـقـعـدًا أمـامـيًـا في إحـدى دور الـعـرض، شـاهـدت فـيـهـا تـمـثـيـلا رائـ