She Stoops to Conquer Essay

This Study Guide consists of approximately 58 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of She Stoops to Conquer.

She Stoops to Conquer Essay

This Study Guide consists of approximately 58 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of She Stoops to Conquer.
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In this introduction to Goldsmith's play, Kronenbergerproposes that She Stoops to Conquer is a prime example of the theatre era from which it emerged, as well as evidence of the playwright's disdain for Sentimental comedy.

Kronenberger served as a drama critic for Time magazinefrom 1938 to 1961, and was regarded as an expert on eighteenth-century English literature and history.

Oliver Goldsmith stands quite high in English literature, and a little apart, by reason of his three-pronged claims to recognition. There is his extremely famous poem, The Deserted Village; his extremely famous novel, The Vicar of Wakefield; his extremely famous play, She Stoops to Conquer. To have achieved three unquestioned classics that jointly run to about the length of an average-sized book is a notable example of how to travel down the ages with the lightest of luggage.

But though all three remain unquestioned classics, they no longer—if we...

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