George Farquhar

Author : David Roberts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350057074

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George Farquhar by David Roberts Pdf

George Farquhar (1677–1707) is one of the most successful and enduringly popular Restoration playwrights. His two masterpieces, The Recruiting Officer and The Beaux' Stratagem, are still regularly performed today. Yet aspects of Farquhar's biography, and in particular his Irish roots and family life, have remained obscure. This is the first study to treat Farquhar's works as documents of migration and the fragmented identity that resulted. Told in reverse chronological order, beginning with Farquhar's last and best-known works, it reveals previously undiscovered material about his life and connections. Born in Londonderry, Farquhar arrived in London at the end of the 1690s but struggled throughout his life to find acceptance in the English literary culture. David Roberts explores how Farquhar used comedy to negotiate his Anglo-Irish Protestant identity while perpetually being treated as an outsider. George Farquhar: A Migrant Life Reversed challenges traditional critical thinking on historiographic approaches to scholarly biography and offers a complex but highly readable account of the interpenetrating pasts, presents and futures of the migrant writer.

Author : Eugene Nelson James
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111391588

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The development of George Farquhar as a comic dramatist by Eugene Nelson James Pdf

Author : George Farquhar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118896344

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The Dramatic Works of George Farquhar by George Farquhar Pdf

Author : George Farquhar,Alexander Charles Ewald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015023932331

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The Dramatic Works of George Farquhar, Edited, with Life and Notes: Love and a bottle. The constant couple, or, A trip to the jubiliee. Sir Harry Wildair. The inconstant; or, The way to win him by George Farquhar,Alexander Charles Ewald Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1736
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ZHBL:ZHBL-00037891

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The Dramatick Works of Mr. George Farquhar by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Farquhar,Alexander Charles Ewald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015023932349

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The Dramatic Works of George Farquhar, Edited, with Life and Notes: The twin-rivals. The recruiting officer. The beaux-stratagem by George Farquhar,Alexander Charles Ewald Pdf

Author : George Farquhar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1772
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:690490417

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The Works of George Farquhar by George Farquhar Pdf

Author : George Farquhar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1736
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101037604533

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The Twin-rivals. A Comedy by George Farquhar Pdf

Author : George Farquhar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1046234824

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˜Theœ Complete Works of George Farquhar by George Farquhar Pdf

Author : George Farquhar
Publisher : C Oet T Oxford English Texts
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Drama
ISBN : UVA:X001360234

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The Works of George Farquhar by George Farquhar Pdf

George Farquhar (1678-1707) was perhaps the best, and certainly the most popular, playwright to appear at the turn of the 18th century. He captivated audiences with his lively good-natured comedies, and romanced the leading actresses and female playwrights. In addition to his eight plays, he wrote many poems, letters, an epic, and a miscellany--all before his untimely death at less than thirty. Shirley Strum Kenny has provided the first scholarly edition of the works since 1730; she has added to the canon materials not printed since the beginning of the 18th century, some of which have never been identified as Farquhar's. Each work is accompanied by an introduction.

Author : George Farquhar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951002037411N

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The Dramatic Works of George Farquhar by George Farquhar Pdf

Author : George Farquhar
Publisher : New York : A.A. Wyn
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : English drama
ISBN : UOM:39015011021881

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George Farquhar by George Farquhar Pdf

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Author : George Farquhar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1756
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000457337

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The Constant Couple by George Farquhar Pdf

Author : George Farquhar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Fine books
ISBN : NYPL:33433076502909

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The Complete Works of George Farquhar in Two Volumes: Introduction. Love and a bottle. The constant couple, or A trip to the jubilee. Sir Henry Wildair, being the sequel to the Trip to the jubilee. The inconstant, or, The way to win him. The twin rivals by George Farquhar Pdf

Author : George Farquhar
Publisher : Stage Door
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 178737307X

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George Farquhar - The Inconstant by George Farquhar Pdf

George Farquhar was born in Derry, Ireland in 1677, one of seven children. Farquhar was educated at Foyle College and later, aged 17, he entered Trinity College, Dublin. He departed after only two years, accounts vary as to why, and he took to acting on the Dublin stage. As an actor he seems to have had no real talent. A terrible accident, when he failed to distinguish between a tipped foil and a deadly rapier, and seriously wounded a fellow actor, resolved Farquhar to give up acting for good. His first play, Love and a Bottle, was well received at London's Drury Lane Theatre in 1699 and was admired "for its sprightly Dialogue and busy Scenes." With the play a success Farquhar settled his talents on a career as a playwright. He had a second play open that same year; The Constant Couple. Again, it was warmly received on debuting at Drury Lane and proved a great success. However, another interest and opportunity now unfolded into his life. He received a commission in the regiment of the Earl of Orrery. His time now became divided between the duties of a successful new playwright and the vocations of soldier. In 1701 Farquhar wrote and debuted a sequel to the Constant Couple, called and based on its main character; Sir Harry Wildair. The following year was to be prolific for the young playwright. He penned both The Inconstant or, The Way To Win and The Twin-Rivals as well as publishing Love and Business, a collection that included letters, verse, and A Discourse Upon Comedy. His work for the army, recruiting soldiers to fight in the War of the Spanish Succession, occupied much of his time for the next three years, and he was to write little except The Stage Coach, in 1774. Farquhar was able, however, to draw upon these years of recruiting experience for his next comedy, The Recruiting Officer in 1706. Early in 1707, Farquhar wrote what was to be his masterpiece: The Beaux Stratagem. In these last two plays his real contribution to the English drama is all the more apparent. He introduced a verbal vigour and sparring, as well as a love of character that are more usually associated with Elizabethan dramatists and laid much of the foundations for Sheridan and Congreve to build upon. George Farquhar, aged only 40, died on April 29th, 1707, almost two months after the debut of his greatest work. He was buried in the Church of St. Martin in the Fields, London, on May 3rd, 1707.