She Stoops To Conquer - Softcover

Oliver Goldsmith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0713628944 ISBN 13: 9780713628944

Publisher: A & C Black, 1986

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author:

The plays of Aurand Harris have been produced and applauded in thousands of productions around the world for nearly a half century. Harris was a prodigious dramatist, writing a new published play each season. He was a tireless experimenter of forms, themes, subjects. This modest man of irrepressible imagination and energy carried a vast array of honors and accolades. He was the first recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Children's Theatre. He received an honorary doctorate from a mid-western university, and was introduced into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre. He was the first playwright to receive the Medallion of the Children's Theatre Foundation of America.

Review:

Oliver Goldsmith's comedy was a milestone: yes, it's fast and funny, almost farcical at times, a great night out, and so on, but it's also a psychological masterpiece written at the time when English society began its stately progress towards its admirable class system. Sunday Times "A bomproof comedy...Oliver Goldsmith's play is about the clash between town and country, between varying degrees of pretension." Robert Dawson Scott, The Times, 04.06.08 'Against Sean Crowley's elegant blank canvas of a set, which allows a home to be mistaken for an inn, Goldsmith's themes of class and snobbery unfold with delicious clarity. The performances are both ticklish and sophisticated - the actors step outside the action to address the audience directly - and yet played for traditional laughs and tremendous relish.' Elisabeth Mahoney, Gaurdian, 01 May 2009

About this edition

• Publisher: A & C Black
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0713628944
• ISBN 13: 9780713628944
• Binding: Paperback
• Editor: Tom Davis