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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 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.
The characters of the play are consistently well-drawn—in particular, Tony Lumpkin, who is perhaps Goldsmith's most brilliant creation.
Goldsmith was beloved and admired by fellow writers, who loved his writing style and pitied his many foibles. Samuel Johnson and Washington Irving, among others, both wrote tender biographies of Goldsmith.
Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish writer best known for his works such as The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), The Good-Natur'd Man (1768), The Deserted Village (1770) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771).
Feb 27, 2019 · Useful for students, this edition and Wood’s introduction to it situate Goldsmith’s play (alongside others) in the theatrical culture of its time, with a glossary of colloquial and unfamiliar terms, and notes to clarify early-21st-century and historical allusions.
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Catherine Cooper shows how the themes of She Stoops to Conquer are developed through contrasts, such as between age and youth, city and country, and high and low social class, and finds that behind those superficial contrasts deeper psychological contrasts are being explored.
