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She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy
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Publisher: Indoeuropeanpublishing.com
Published: Jul 13 2024
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by Oliver Goldsmith, first performed in London in 1773. The play is a favourite for study by English literature and theatre classes in the English-speaking world. It is one of the few plays from the 18th century to have retained its appeal and is still regularly performed. The play has been adapted into a film several times, including in 1914 and 1923. Initially the play was titled Mistakes of a Night and the events within the play take place in one long night. In 1778, John O'Keeffe wrote a loose sequel, Tony Lumpkin in Town.
The play is notable for being the origin of the common English phrase, Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies. (appearing as 'fibs' in the play). (wikipedia.org)
About the author:
Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 - 4 April 1774) was a well-known Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist and poet, noted for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). He is thought by some to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765).
... Among his papers was found the prospectus of an encyclopedia, to be called the Universal dictionary of the arts and sciences. He wished this to be the British equivalent of the Encyclopédie and it was to include comprehensive articles by Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir William Jones, Fox and Dr. Burney. The project, however, was not realised due to Goldsmith's death.
... His life was dramatised in the 1940 Australian radio play A Citizen of the World.
Two characters in the 1951 comedy The Lavender Hill Mob quote the same line from Goldsmith's poem The Traveller - a subtle joke, because the film's plot involves the recasting of stolen gold.
During the opening credits of the SKY One adaptation of Sir Terry Pratchett's Christmas-like story The Hogfather, a portrait of Goldsmith is shown as part of a hall of memorials to those inhumed by the Ankh-Morpork Assassins' Guild.
In the 1925 novel The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham, the last words of the poem An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, The dog it was that died, are the dying words of bacteriologist Walter Fane, one of the primary characters in the novel. And using the title Elegy for a Mad Dog is an episode of Marcus Welby, M.D. (1971, Season 2, Episode 21).
In the Nabokov novel Pale Fire, a central character's house is situated between Goldsworth (the name of an estate) and Wordsmith University. Crossing these two names yields the names of the poets Wordsworth and Goldsmith; one of the narrators refers to this as the witty exchange of syllables invoking the two masters of the heroic couplet.
In the play Marx in Soho by Howard Zinn, Marx makes a reference to Goldsmith's poem The Deserted Village.
In The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot parodies Goldsmith's song When lovely woman stoops to folly.
The characters of 'Edwin' and 'Angelina' in Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury were a reference to Goldsmith's poem The Hermit. (wikipedia.org)
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