She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer, or The Mistakes of a Night,a comedy by Goldsmith , produced 1773 .
The principal characters are Hardcastle, who loves ‘everything that's old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine’; Mrs Hardcastle, and Miss Hardcastle their daughter; Mrs Hardcastle's son by a former marriage, Tony Lumpkin, a frequenter of the Three Jolly Pigeons, idle and ignorant, but cunning and mischievous, and doted on by his mother; and young Marlow, ‘one of the most bashful and reserved young fellows in the world’, except with barmaids and servant-girls. His father, Sir Charles Marlow, has proposed a match between young Marlow and Miss Hardcastle, and the young man and his friend Hastings accordingly travel down to pay the Hardcastles a visit. Losing their way they arrive at night at the Three Jolly Pigeons, where Tony Lumpkin directs them to a neighbouring inn, which is in reality the Hardcastles’ house. The...
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