She Stoops to Conquer and Other Comedies
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By Oliver Goldsmith, Henry Fielding, David Garrick, George Colman, John O'Keeffe, Nigel Wood (Editor)
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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 c...


