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She Stoops to Conquer
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A lively eighteenth-century comedy of mistaken identity, courtship, class manners, and theatrical wit.
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She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer is Oliver Goldsmith’s enduring stage comedy about mistaken identity, family expectation, romantic strategy, and the awkward performances of class and gender. This original English edition serves readers looking for classic drama, Restoration and eighteenth-century comedy, and public-domain theater texts.
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Oliver Goldsmith died in 1774, and She Stoops to Conquer was first performed and published in 1773. These dates support the public-domain basis for this English dramatic text.
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She Stoops to Conquer
Oliver Goldsmith
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by Oliver Goldsmith
She Stoops To Conquer; Or, The Mistakes Of A Night.
A Comedy.
To Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Dear Sir,--By inscribing this slight performance to you, I do not mean so much to compliment you as myself. It may do me some honour to inform the public, that I have lived many years in intimacy with you. It may serve the interests of mankind also to inform them, that the greatest wit may be found in a character, without impairing the most unaffected piety.
I have, particularly, reason to thank you for your partiality to this performance. The undertaking a comedy not merely sentimental was very dangerous; and Mr. Colman, who saw this piece in its various stages, always thought it so. However, I ventured to trust it to the public; and, though it was necessarily delayed till late in the season, I have every reason to be grateful.
I am, dear Sir, your most sincere friend and admirer,
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- 01Full text
- 02SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER
- 03OLIVER GOLDSMITH.
- 04PROLOGUE,
- 05DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
- 06MEN.
- 07WOMEN.
- 08ACT THE FIRST.
- 09SCENE--A Chamber in an old-fashioned House.
- 10SCENE--An Alehouse Room. Several shabby Fellows with punch and
- 11SONG.
- 12ACT THE SECOND.
- 13SCENE--An old-fashioned House.
- 14HARDCASTLE.
- 15book for an hour together; and they said they liked the book the better
- 16ACT THE THIRD.
- 17ACT THE FOURTH.
- 18letter, and betrayed us. Was this well done, young gentleman?
- 19ACT THE FIFTH.
- 20SCENE changes to the back of the Garden.
- 21SCENE changes.
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