Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer, first performed in London in 1773, is one of the relatively few English eighteenth-century plays still regularly performed and studied. Its enduring popularity may in part be due to its triumphant theatricality — it is a justly celebrated example of the playwright’s art — but it also consistently offers a challenging view of the ways society operates. Careful study of the extract in this article will indicate some different ways of responding to an unseen drama extract. You might also be able to apply some of these approaches to a wider study of the play.
HARDCASTLE. Young man, young man, from your father’s letter to me, I was taught to expect a well-bred modest man as a visitor here, but now I find him no better than a coxcomb and a bully; but he will be down here presently, and shall hear more of it. [Exit.]
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