The Recruiting Officer and Other Plays: The Constant Couple; The Twin Rivals; The Recruiting Officer; The Beaux' Stratagem

By George Farquhar

Book Overview

George Farquhar (1678-1707) wrote some of the most exhilarating comedies in English, recording with great frankness the brutality and disorder of his age as well as its wit and vivacity. This modern spelling edition of four of the least formal and most actable Restoration comedies discloses the brutal, witty, and vigorously comic world in which Farquhar lived. Complete with an intorduction and full notes, this volume includes The Constant Couple, The Twin Rivals, The Recruiting Officer, and The Beaux' stratagem. All challenge many preconceptions about class, marriage, and the sexual politics of the early eighteenth century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192822497
• ISBN13: 9780192822499
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Fun.

These plays are fun to read. They might seem old fashioned because they were written two hundred years ago, but actually I think they are relevant today and any day. I've read all four plays already dozens of times, and I wish more people could become acquainted with this period's marvelous literature.