She Stoops to Conquer - Couverture souple

Goldsmith, Oliver

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1854594419 ISBN 13 : 9781854594419

Editeur : Nick Hern Books, 1999

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Number 44 in Nick Hern Book's Drama Classics series, providing great drama at a great price. Includes the full text, plus a short introduction that takes in the life of the playwright, explores what happens in the play, its place in English comedy and the themes of marriage, education, social standing, deception and disguise.

The best-loved English comedy of the 18th-century is a masterpiece of misunderstandings and a sharp satire on social standing. It brilliantly mocks the snobbery of London through the manipulations of the country, embodied in Goldsmith's great creation Tony Lumpkin. She Stoops to Conquer also celebrates the virtues of "laughing comedy," which Goldsmith advocated over the prevalent sentimental forms of his contemporaries.

Revue de presse

I know of no comedy for many years that has so much exhilarated an audience; that has answered so much the great end of comedy - making an audience merry. --From Boswell's Life of Johnson on Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

Fresh, spirited and often blissfully funny...The play is a marvel, a comedy almost entirely bereft of malice, but one that never seems twee, sentimental or bland. --Evening Standard on the 2012 National Theatre production.

She Stoops to Conquer is almost 240 years old, but Oliver Goldsmith's tightly plotted play seems wonderfully youthful in this fizzy production. --Daily Mail on the 2012 National Theatre production.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nick Hern Books
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1854594419
• ISBN 13: 9781854594419
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 102