Henry Fielding

Oliver Goldsmith

David Garrick

George Colman

John O'Keeffe

The Modern Husband * The Clandestine Marriage * She Stoops to Conquer * Wild Oats This edition brings together four eighteenth-century comedies that illustrate the full variety of the century's drama. Fielding's The Modern Husband , written before the 1737 Licensing Act that restricted political and social comment, depicts wife-pandering and widespread social corruption. InGarrick and Colman's The Clandestine Marriage two lovers marry in defiance of parental wishes and rue the consequences. She Stoops to Conquer explores the comic and not-so-comic consequences of mistaken identity, and in Wild Oats, the 'strolling player' Rover is a beacon of hope at a time ofunrest. Part of the Oxford English Drama series, this edition has modern-spelling texts, critical introduction, wide-ranging annotation and an informative bibliography.

She Stoops to Conquer and Other Comedies

Нешаблонное мышление. Проверенная методика достижения амбициозных целей

Wild Oats

A Comedy, in Five Acts, as Performed with Universal Applause at the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden

The World in a Village

A Comedy in Five Acts. As Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent Garden

Life's Vagaries

The Castle of Andalusia; a Comic Opera, in Three Acts. As Performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

As Performed ... at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden

Sprigs of Laurel: a Comic Opera, in Two Acts

A Comic Opera, in Two Acts. As Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. By John O'Keeffe, Esq

The Poor Soldier

In Two Acts. As it is Performed at the Theatres in London and Dublin. By John O'Keeffe, Esq

The Dead Alive: a Comic Opera

A Comic Opera; In Two Acts. By John O'Keefe, Esq

Peeping Tom of Coventry, etc

The Dramatic Works of John O'Keeffe

A Farce, in Two Acts

Modern Antiques, Or The Merry Mourners

Fontainbleau; or, Our way in France ... As performed at the Theatres-Royal in Covent-Garden, and Smock-Alley, etc

Fontainbleau; or, Our Way in France. A comic opera, in three acts

Or Blunders at Brighton: a Musical Entertainment in Two Acts. As Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. With Universal Applause. Written by John O'Keeffe

The Irish Mimic

A two-volume memoir published in 1826 by an Irish playwright renowned for his comic operas and farces.

Written by Himself

Recollections of the Life of John O'Keeffe

Recollections of the Life of John O'Keeffe, Written by Himself...

John O'Keeffe

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