Download or read book George Farquhar written by David Roberts and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Farquhar (1677–1707) is one of the most successful and enduringly popular Restoration playwrights. His two masterpieces, The Recruiting Officer and The Beaux' Stratagem, are still regularly performed today. Yet aspects of Farquhar's biography, and in particular his Irish roots and family life, have remained obscure. This is the first study to treat Farquhar's works as documents of migration and the fragmented identity that resulted. Told in reverse chronological order, beginning with Farquhar's last and best-known works, it reveals previously undiscovered material about his life and connections. Born in Londonderry, Farquhar arrived in London at the end of the 1690s but struggled throughout his life to find acceptance in the English literary culture. David Roberts explores how Farquhar used comedy to negotiate his Anglo-Irish Protestant identity while perpetually being treated as an outsider. George Farquhar: A Migrant Life Reversed challenges traditional critical thinking on historiographic approaches to scholarly biography and offers a complex but highly readable account of the interpenetrating pasts, presents and futures of the migrant writer.

Download or read book The development of George Farquhar as a comic dramatist written by Eugene Nelson James and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-05-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Complete Works of George Farquhar in Two Volumes written by George Garquhar and published by . This book was released on 1992-08-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonded Leather binding

Download or read book The Works of George Farquhar written by George Farquhar and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Farquhar (1678-1707) was perhaps the best, and certainly the most popular, playwright to appear at the turn of the 18th century. He captivated audiences with his lively good-natured comedies, and romanced the leading actresses and female playwrights. In addition to his eight plays, he wrote many poems, letters, an epic, and a miscellany--all before his untimely death at age twenty-nine. Shirley Strum Kenny has provided the first scholarly edition of the works since 1730 adding to the canon materials not printed since the beginning of the 18th century including some that have never been identified as Farquhar's. Each work is accompanied by an introduction.

Download or read book The Beaux Stratagem written by George Farquhar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It attests to Farquhar's stature as a man that he composed this warm-hearted and vibrant play while he was dying. Like The Recruiting Officer, the play is set in a provincial town and its plot is slight: Aimwell and Archer, two impecunious London gentlemen, arrive in Lichfield looking for an heiress to marry. Aimwell, posing as his elder brother, falls in love with his 'prey' Dorinda and confesses his imposture to her; his 'man-servant' Archer arouses the wistful interest of the unhappily married Mrs Sullen. The introduction to this edition discusses the play for its theatrical merits and argues that it dramatises the ills of marriage in early modern England, shown by Farquhar to be more injurious to the wife than to the husband, and calls for a reform of the divorce laws.

Download or read book The Dramatick Works of Mr George Farquhar written by and published by . This book was released on 1736 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dramatic Works of George Farquhar written by George Farquhar and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dramatic Works of George Farquhar Edited with Life and Notes Love and a bottle The constant couple or A trip to the jubiliee Sir Harry Wildair The inconstant or The way to win him written by George Farquhar and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Complete Works of George Farquhar written by George Farquhar and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dramatick Works of Mr George Farquhar The beaux strategem Love and a bottle The constant couple The stage coach written by George Farquhar and published by . This book was released on 1736 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dramatick Works of Mr George Farquhar The recruiting officer Sir Harry Wildair The inconstant The twin rivals written by George Farquhar and published by . This book was released on 1736 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Works of George Farquhar Containing All His Poems Letters Essays and Comedies Publish d in His Life time written by George Farquhar and published by . This book was released on 1742 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Works of the Late Ingenious Mr George Farquhar written by George Farquhar and published by . This book was released on 1772 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Works of the Late Ingenious Mr George Farquhar Containing All His Letters Poems Essays and Comedies Publish d in His Life time The Comedies are Illustrated with Cuts The Second Edition written by George Farquhar and published by . This book was released on 1711 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dramatic Works Of George Farquhar Edited With Life And Notes The Twin rivals The Recruiting Officer The Beaux stratagem written by George Farquhar and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dramatic Works of George Farquhar written by George Farquhar and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Recruiting Officer written by George Farquhar and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This completely new edition of The Recruiting Officer contains a freshly-edited play text, with new annotations, in modern spelling. Tiffany Stern's comprehensive and engaging introduction discusses the author's career and gives a history of the play including its staging, critical interpretation, date and sources, putting it its context of the late Restoration and illuminating its theatrical vivacity. Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer is set in Shrewsbury in 1704 and describes what happens in a country town when the army come to stay. With cross-dressing and confusion in plenty, this is a comedy exploring the timeless themes of love and war. One of Farquhar's last two plays, The Recruiting Officer is both entertaining and touching. It has a light, humane touch and its original depiction of a real-life provincial town comically explores the impact that ongoing warfare had on its civilian society.