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Oliver Goldsmith published a great variety of material including poems, biographies, a novel, essays, and sketches. One of his plays, She Stoops to Conquer: Or, The Mistakes of a Night (pr., pb...
She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by Oliver Goldsmith, first performed in London in 1773. The play is a favourite for study by English literature and theatre classes in the English-speaking world. It is one of the few plays from the 18th century to have retained its appeal and is still regularly performed. The play has been adapted into a film ...
Goldsmith was duly admired as a poet by his contemporaries. Unfortunately, The Traveller is hardly read today but his poem The Deserted Village is more widely known. Both of these poems are products of his genuinely poetical and imaginative genius.
Goldsmith not only excelled at fiction and poetry; he also wrote two classic plays. The first, The Good-Natured Man (1768), was not terribly successful, but demonstrated Goldsmith’s ability to undermine, or make subversive use of, the tropes associated with the “sentimental comedies” of his day.
Oct 11, 2018 · Oliver Goldsmith’s 1773 play She Stoops to Conquer is a beloved mainstay of the theatrical repertory, but its connections to music have been obscured or lost since its premiere.
Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer (1773) was staged only two weeks after the publication of his Essay on the Theatre, in which he famously compared sentimental comedies with what he...
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Goldsmith's Plays: The Good-Natured Man, She Stoops To Conquer (1888) is a collection of two plays written by Oliver Goldsmith, a prominent Irish author and playwright of the 18th century.
