She Stoops to Conquer (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Oliver Goldsmith
- First Published: 1773
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Comedy of manners
- Time of Work: Eighteenth century
- Setting: England
- Principal Characters: Mr. Hardcastle, Mrs. Hardcastle, Tony Lumpkin, Kate Hardcastle, Constance Neville, Marlow, Hastings, Sir Charles
- Genres: Drama, Comedy, Comedy of manners
- Subjects: Love or romance, England or English people, Eighteenth century, Ireland or Irish people, Neoclassicism
- Locales: England
The Story:
Mrs. Hardcastle, the wife of Mr. Hardcastle by a second marriage, had by her first husband a son, Tony Lumpkin. Tony was a lazy, spoiled boy, but his mother excused his actions by imagining him to be sickly. Mr. Hardcastle vowed that his stepson looked the picture of good health. Kate Hardcastle, Mr. Hardcastle’s daughter, was headstrong. To overcome his daughter’s wish to be a lady of importance, Mr. Hardcastle had struck a bargain with her whereby she wore ordinary clothes and pretended to be a country girl during part of the day; at other times she was allowed...
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