She Stoops to Conquer (1773)

Document Outline

• She Stoops to Conquer (1773)
• Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774)
• The Play’s the Thing . . .
• Theatre and Society
• Theatre Audiences
• New Theatre Designs
• New Stages
• New Stages (cont’d)
• Using the Stage
• English Theatre in Decline
• Sentimentalism on Stage
• Comedy vs. Tragedy
• Comedy and Ridicule
• “Laughing Comedy”
• A Return to Old Forms
• A Laughing Comedy”?
• Wit and Verbal Jousting
• Situational Humour
• Ridicule
• Disguise
• Marlow’s “Disguise”
• Class
• Class and Love
• Class and Disguise
• Kate’s “Disguise”
• Danger, Will Robinson!
• A Sentimental Laughing Comedy?