This charming comedy has delighted audiences for over two centuries. First performed in 1773, it concerns Kate Hardcastle, a young lady who poses as a serving girl to win the heart of a young gentleman too shy to court ladies of his own class. A number of delightful deceits and hilarious turns of plot must be played out before the mating strategies of both Kate Hardcastle and her friend Constance Neville conclude happily. Along the way, there is an abundance of merry mix-ups, racy dialogue and sly satire of the sentimental comedies of Goldsmith's day. The extraordinary humor and humanity with which Goldsmith invested this play have made it one of the most read, performed, and studied of all English comedies.

She Stoops to Conquer (The New Mermaids)

Goldsmith, Oliver

Davis, Tom [Editor]

W.W.Norton & Company

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She Stoops to Conquer

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Longman

This edition of a familiar and ever-delightful classic of the stage is  intended to satisfy two current demands in the teaching of secondary English.   It  will make available for school use  the  most  successful  and  the  most  important, historically, of Goldsmith's plays. It will thus afford to pupils  and  teachers a wider field of choice, to suit their various and varying tastes. It will  also provide material for the more reasoned study of its period and  its  type.   All who read Macaulay's "" Johnson"", or the ""Selections"" from  Boswell,   or  Burke's ""Speech on Conciliation"", or Thackeray's ""English Humorists"", as well as  those who wish a text illustrative of Johnson's  period  in  the  history  of  English literature  or  English  drama,   will  here  find    their    needs    supplied

She Stoops to Conquer (Study Texts)

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Dramas & Plays

This edition of a familiar and ever-delightful classic of the stage is intended to satisfy two current demands in the teaching of secondary English. It will make available for school use the most successful and the most important, historically, of Goldsmith's plays. It will thus afford to pupils and teachers a wider field of choice, to suit their various and varying tastes. It will also provide material for the more reasoned study of its period and its type. All who read Macaulay's "" Johnson"", or the ""Selections"" from Boswell, or Burke's ""Speech on Conciliation"", or Thackeray's ""English Humorists"", as well as those who wish a text illustrative of Johnson's period in the history of English literature or English drama, will here find their needs supplied

She Stoops To Conquer

TALMAN CO

The action of She Stoops to Conquer (1773) is largely confined to a night and a day in Squire Hardcastle's somewhat dilapidated country house: Young Marlow, on his way there to meet the bride his father has chosen for him, loses his way and arrives at the house assuming it is an inn. The prospect of meeting the genteel Miss Hardcastle terrifies the diffident youngster; but the serving-girl Kate - in fact, Miss Hardcastle, who chooses not to clarify the misunderstanding - immediately catches his fancy and cannot complain of a lack of ardour in her well-born suitor. After a series of trifling confusions and the inevitable eavesdropping-from-behind-a-screen, all is resolved so pleasingly that the comedy has been a favourite with amateur and professional companies and their audiences for over 230 years.

She Stoops to Conquer (New Mermaids)

Methuen Drama

Goldsmith's eighteenth-century comedy is supplemented with illustrations of costumes and a discussion on the dramatist, the play, and staging techniques

B E S Pub Co

This is a new edition of the classic play.

Dramatic Pub Co

First performed in 1773, “She Stoops to Conquer” is the timeless comedic drama by Anglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith. The play depicts the story of Charles Marlow, a wealthy young man who is promised in marriage to a woman, Kate Hardcastle, that he has never met. While he is eager to meet her and is travelling to her home with his friend, George Hastings, Charles is quite shy in the company of women of wealth. He prefers those of a lower class and whenever in the company of such women he transforms into a bold and lecherous rogue. Learning of Charles’ shyness before his arrival at her home, Kate pretends to be a serving-maid in order to win his affections. Kate succeeds at her ruse and soon Charles falls in love with her and is ready to elope until the sudden appearance of his father reveals Kate’s artifice. Soon all is resolved and the young lovers are soon married. Charles’ friend George also finds love in the Hardcastle home in this comedic gem. Full of bawdy dialogue and hilarious scenes, “She Stoops to Conquer” is a charming and light-hearted play that has entertained audiences for over two hundred years. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

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