The Recruiting Officer: a Comedy. As It is Acted at the Theatre-royal in Drury-lane, by Her Majesty's Servants. - George Farquhar - Libros - Gale Ecco, Print Editions - 9781170537787 - 29 de mayo de 2010
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The Recruiting Officer: a Comedy. As It is Acted at the Theatre-royal in Drury-lane, by Her Majesty's Servants.

George Farquhar

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The Recruiting Officer: a Comedy. As It is Acted at the Theatre-royal in Drury-lane, by Her Majesty's Servants.

Publisher Marketing: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT046506The dedication signed: G. Farquhar. In: 'The works of the late ingenious Mr. George Farquhar' 9th ed., London, 1760. London: printed for S. Crowder and Co. T. Caslon, T. Lowndes, H. Woodgate and S. Brookes, 1760. 98p.; 12 Contributor Bio:  Farquhar, George George Farquhar (1678-1707) was an Irish-born playwright of the Restoration period. During his ten-year career, he produced two brilliant comedies, "The Recruiting Officer" in 1706 and "The Beaux' Stratagem" the following year. The son of a clergyman, he studied at Trinity College, Dublin, before briefly working as an actor at the Smock Alley Theatre in that city. Following an accident during a stage fight, when he mistakenly used a real sword and wounded a fellow actor so badly that he almost died, Farquhar renounced acting. Encouraged by his fellow actor Robert Wilks, he took up the pen and settled in London. His first play "Love and a Bottle" was well received at Drury Lane in 1698. The following year, T"he Constant Couple; or, A Trip to the Jubilee" was an even greater hit with Wilks in the lead. After "Sir Harry Wildair" (1701), a sequel to "The Constant Couple", and "The Twin-Rivals" (1702), he wrote his first great play. The first production of "The Recruiting Officer "starred Anne Oldfield, with whom Farquhar supposedly had an affair. The following year Farquhar, with "not one shilling" in his pocket, was encouraged by Wilks to produce a hastily written play. The next day Farquhar delivered the plot for "The Beaux' Stratagem", which was presented on stage within six weeks. He died from tuberculosis after the third performance.

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Publicado 29 de mayo de 2010
ISBN13 9781170537787
Editores Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Páginas 106
Dimensiones 246 × 189 × 5 mm   ·   204 g

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