She Stoops to Conquer and Other Comedies

by Henry Fielding, David Garrick, Oliver Goldsmith

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199553882
• ISBN13: 9780199553884
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.0" x 7.5"