She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer and Other Comedies--------------------------------------------------The Modern Husband * The Clandestine Marriage * She Stoops to Conquer* Wild Oats This edition brings together four eighteenth-century comediesthat illustrate the full variety of the century's drama. Fielding'sThe Modern Husband , written before the 1737 Licensing Act that restrictedpolitical and social comment, depicts wife-pandering and widespreadsocial corruption. In Garrick and Colman's The Clandestine Marriagetwo lovers marry in defiance of parental wishes and rue the consequences.She Stoops to Conquer explores the comic and not-so-comic consequencesof mistaken identity, and in Wild Oats, the 'strolling player' Roveris a beacon of hope at a time of unrest. Part of the Oxford EnglishDrama series, this edition has modern-spelling texts, critical introduction,wide-ranging annotation and an informative bibliography.