The beaux stratagem / George Farquhar ; edited and introduced by Simon Trussler.
By: Farquhar, George.
Contributor(s): Trussler, Simon
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Material type: 
BookPublisher: London : Nick Hern Books, 1995Description: xxiv, 104 p. ; 16 cm.ISBN: 1854591541.Subject(s): Farquhar, George, 1677?-1707 | ComedyDDC classification: 822.4
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 822.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00085371 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price
George Farquhar's immortal comedy about two young gentlemen with a misguided plan to get enrich themselves at the expense of a series of young heiresses.
A pair of London gentlemen, Archer and Aimwell, pose as a Lord and his servant in order to procure one handsome dowry to split between them. While Aimwell, the 'lord', works on the affections of Lady Bountiful's daughter Dorinda, his 'servant' Archer makes his bid for her son's wife.
George Farquhar's play The Beaux Stratagem was first produced at the Theatre Royal, London, in 1707.
This edition, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is edited and introduced by Simon Trussler.
Includes bibliographical references.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
George Farquhar was Irish by birth. He studied at Trinity College in Dublin but left without earning a degree to become an actor. Later he wrote for the theater. He is most remembered for bringing to English comedy a fresh good humor and an emphasis on country settings. One of his plays, The Recruiting Officer (1706), which Bertolt Brecht rewrote, is a lively takeoff on the author's own military experiences.His best-known play, The Beaux' Stratagem (1707), engages the marriage debate and the difficulty of divorce, drawing on divorce tracts of John Milton. It is a lively, very natural comedy of sensibility. Farquhar wrote Discourse upon Comedy in a Letter to a Friend, in which he defended the genre as "a well-framed tale, handsomely told, as an agreeable vehicle for counsel or reproof."
Farquhar married a woman he thought to be wealthy. He was mistaken, however. He died penniless in London at the age of 29.
(Bowker Author Biography)