SOURCE: "The Plays of Oliver Goldsmith," in The Journal of Irish Literature, Vol. III, No. 3, September, 1974, pp. 39-48.
In this essay, Hassert views The Good Natured Man and She Stoops to Conquer as "laughing comedies" intended to ridicule sentimental comedies.
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