by Oliver Goldsmith · W W Norton & Co Inc · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780393900460
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«She Stoops to Conquer» is the stage comedy by Oliver Goldsmith, published by W W Norton & Co Inc in paperback (102 pages, in English).
Premiered in 1773, the play follows Kate Hardcastle, who poses as a servant to win over a young man too shy to court women of his class. Amid misunderstandings and deceptions, the romantic strategies of her friend Constance Neville are also resolved, in a satire of the sentimental theatre of the time.
This edition belongs to the The New Mermaids collection, edited by Tom Davis.
Recommended for students of English literature and lovers of classical theatre and comedy.
Oliver Goldsmith was an Anglo-Irish poet, novelist, playwright, and hack writer. He produced literary works in a variety of genres and is regarded as one of the most versatile writers of the Georgian era. His works are known for their realistic depictions of British society, and his comedy plays for the English stage are considered second in importance only to those of playwright William Shakespeare. Credited with introducing sentimentalism in English literature in 18th-century Great Britain, several of Goldsmith's publications are popular classics of the period, including his only novel, The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), and the comedy play She Stoops to Conquer (1773).
