The Recruiting Officer Paperback / softback
by George Farquhar
Edited by Dr Tiffany (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK) Stern
Part of the New Mermaids series
Paperback / softback
Description
This completely new edition of The Recruiting Officer contains a freshly-edited play text, with new annotations, in modern spelling.
Tiffany Stern's comprehensive and engaging introduction discusses the author's career and gives a history of the play including its staging, critical interpretation, date and sources, putting it its context of the late Restoration and illuminating its theatrical vivacity. Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer is set in Shrewsbury in 1704 and describes what happens in a country town when the army come to stay.
With cross-dressing and confusion in plenty, this is a comedy exploring the timeless themes of love and war.
One of Farquhar's last two plays, The Recruiting Officer is both entertaining and touching.
It has a light, humane touch and its original depiction of a real-life provincial town comically explores the impact that ongoing warfare had on its civilian society.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:10/01/2011
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- ISBN:9780713673791
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Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:10/01/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9780713673791
