It attests to Farquhar’s stature as a man that he composed thiswarm-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 elderbrother, falls in love with his ‘prey’ Dorinda and confesses hisimposture to her; his ‘man-servant’ Archer arouses the wistful interestof the unhappily married Mrs Sullen. The introduction to this editiondiscusses the play for its theatrical merits and argues that itdramatises the ills of marriage in early modern England, shown by Farquhar to be more injurious to the wife than to the husband, andcalls for a reform of the divorce laws.
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Limba Engleză ● Format PDF ● Pagini 192 ● ISBN 9781408144275 ● Editor Blake Ann Blake ● Editura Bloomsbury Publishing ● Publicat 2014 ● Descărcabil 6 ori ● Valută EUR ● ID 3182949 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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