Books with title She Stoops To Conquer

Oliver Goldsmith (1728 or 1730-1774) was an Irish writer and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770) (written in memory of his brother), and his plays The Good-natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771). He is also thought to have written the classic children's tale, The History of Little Goody Two Shoes, giving the world that familiar phrase. Goldsmith earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1749 at Trinity College. He later studied medicine and worked as an apothecary's assistant. Goldsmith had a massive output as a hack writer for the publishers of London. In 1760, Goldsmith began to publish a series of letters in the Public Ledger under the title The Citizen of the World. Amongst his other works are Life of Voltaire (1761), The History of England in a Series of Letters (1764), History of Rome (1769), Retaliation (1774) and Animated Nature (1774).

A Act by Oliver Goldsmith. MRS. HARDCASTLE. I vow, Mr. Hardcastle, you're very particular. Is there a creature in the whole country but ourselves, that does not take a trip to town now and then, to rub off the rust a little? There's the two Miss Hoggs, and our neighbour Mrs. Grigsby, go to take a month's polishing every winter. HARDCASTLE. Ay, and bring back vanity and affectation to last them the whole year. I wonder why London cannot keep its own fools at home! In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stage-coach. Its fopperies come down not only as inside passengers, but in the very basket. MRS. HARDCASTLE. Ay, your times were fine times indeed; you have been telling us of them for many a long year. Here we live in an old rumbling mansion, that looks for all the world like an inn, but that we never see company. Our best visitors are old Mrs. Oddfish, the curate's wife, and little Cripplegate, the lame dancing-master; and all our entertainment your old stories of Prince Eugene and the Duke of Marlborough. I hate such old-fashioned trumpery.

A beautiful daughter of a wealthy man, Kate Hardcastle, is told that a suitor, Charles Marlowe is coming from London to the country to meet her. Her jealous step brother, Richard meets Marlowe in a pub in the village and directs Marlowe to his step-father’s home for accommodations, telling him that it is a run down inn, about to go out of business. Kate goes along with the rouse and pretends to be a barmaid. And the comedic case of mistaken identity begins.

She Stoops to Conquer is the comedic drama that depicts the story of Charles Marlow, a wealthy young man who is promised to a woman that he has never met. While he is eager to meet her, Charles is quite shy in the company of women of wealth, however in the company of women of the lower classes he transforms into a lecherous rogue. Learning of this, Kate Hardcastle, the woman he is promised too, pretends to be a serving-maid in order to win Charles's affections. She Stoops to Conquer is a charming and light-hearted play.

A beautiful daughter of a wealthy man, Kate Hardcastle, is told that a suitor, Charles Marlowe is coming from London to the country to meet her. Her jealous step brother, Richard meets Marlowe in a pub in the village and directs Marlowe to his step-father’s home for accommodations, telling him that it is a run down inn, about to go out of business. Kate goes along with the rouse and pretends to be a barmaid. And the comedic case of mistaken identity begins.

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A beautiful daughter of a wealthy man, Kate Hardcastle, is told that a suitor, Charles Marlowe is coming from London to the country to meet her. Her jealous step brother, Richard meets Marlowe in a pub in the village and directs Marlowe to his step-father’s home for accommodations, telling him that it is a run down inn, about to go out of business. Kate goes along with the rouse and pretends to be a barmaid. And the comedic case of mistaken identity begins.