This edition brings together four eighteenth-century comedies that illustrate the full variety of the social and cultural mores of the time. Fielding's The Modern Husband, written before the 1737 Licensing Act that restricted political and social comment, depicts wife-pandering and widespread social corruption. In Garrick and Colman's The Clandestine Marriage two lovers marry in defiance of parental wishes and rue the consequences. She Stoops to Conquer explores the comic and not-so-comic consequences of mistaken identity, and in Wild Oats, the strolling player Rover is a beacon of hope at a time of unrest. Part of the Oxford English Drama series, this edition has modern-spelling texts, critical introduction, wide-ranging annotation, and an informative bibliography.

She Stoops to Conquer and Other Comedies (Oxford World's Classics)

Literature & Fiction

GOLDSMITH, OLIVER

Colman, George

O'Keeffe, John

FIELDING, Henry

Garrick, David

British & Irish

Oxford University Press

Originally composed and published in 1981, this second book makes up two volumes of the plays of George Colman the Younger. Versatile, industrious, talented, Goerge Colman the Younger (1762-1836) followed Sheridan as England's most popular playwright. He wrote not only monologues, farces, pantomimes, comic operas, and straight comedies, but also hybrid three-act anticipations of melodrama.

The Plays of George Colman the Younger: Volume 2 (Routledge Revivals)

Dramas & Plays

Routledge

Broad Grins

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Literary

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

Random Records (1830)

Kessinger Publishing

Preludes to two 18th-century English plays, with Professor Frazier's comprehensive essay.

New Brooms

History & Criticism

Scholars' Facsimilies & Reprint

Il Matrimonio Segreto: The Secret Marriage

CIMAROSA DOMENICO (

Legare Street Press

This classic play is a masterpiece of comedy and drama, exploring the themes of inheritance, power, and love. The story revolves around the fortunes of a young man who discovers he is the long-lost heir to a vast fortune, and the various machinations of his friends and family to obtain it. With witty dialogue and charming characters, this play remains a favorite of audiences and theater enthusiasts alike. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Heir at Law: A Comedy, in Five Acts

Blue-beard

Random Records, Volume I

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

History

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