The Recruiting Officer - Couverture souple

Farquhar, George

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1854593404 ISBN 13 : 9781854593405

Editeur : Nick Hern Books, 1997

Synopsis

Rare book

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Number twenty one in NHB's Drama Classics Series, providing the world's great drama at a great price.

The introduction to this edition of The Recruiting Officer includes a short biography of George Farquhar and chronology of his work; a guide to what happens in the play; a short history of the play and its context; and a brief guide to characterisation, language and themes.

In the town of Shrewsbury Captain Plume and captain Brazen are on a recruiting drive. Planning to cheat and flatter the citizens into signing up for the wars, they find that, on being reaquainted with the lovely Sylvia and her cousin Melinda, they have their own battles of a different kind...

The Recruiting Officer was the first play to be staged in the Colony of New South Wales, by the convicts of the First Fleet in 1789. A performance immortalised in Timberlake Wertenbaker's play Our Country's Good.

Revue de presse :

A canvas filled with scarlet-coated rogues, devious gentlewomen, knowing wenches and rough and ready commoners...When they are all assembled, as in the final courtroom scene, it makes a magnificent 18th century portrait. --The Stage

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Nick Hern Books
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1854593404
• ISBN 13: 9781854593405
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128