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The Recruiting Officer is a 1706 play by the Irish writer George Farquhar, which follows the social and sexual exploits of two officers, the womanising Plume and the cowardly Brazen, in the town of Shrewsbury (the town where Farquhar himself was posted in this capacity) to recruit soldiers. The chaacters of the play are generally stock, in keeping with the genre of Restoration comedy.
2) The rover
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Written in two parts with multiple plot lines, The Rover, or, The Banish't Cavaliers, deals with the adventures of a group of love-struck Englishmen in Naples, during Carnival, a period when prohibitions are temporarily removed, privileges and rank suspended, and women-- from convent girls to courtesans-- take the initiative. Aphra Behn's play explores issues of love, trickery and deception, forced marriage, male power, fidelity, and the excesses...
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In this new edition, The Beaux' Stratagem is seen as a traditional work, combining characteristics of the Restoration comedy of manners with those of the more conventionally moral comedy that followed. Mr. Fifer discusses the numerous alterations made in the text during the century, many of which eliminated racy dialogue or diminished the importance of the marriage-divorce theme. Farquhar's views on divorce were influenced by Milton; he is also concerned...
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Originally performed and published in 1675, this five-act play parodies the vices and hypocrisies of Restoration London. The plot centers on the eponymous country wife, Margery, whose suspicious husband, Mr. Pinchwife, keeps her isolated. On a rare outing to the theater, Margery encounters the aptly named Mr. Horner. A notorious rake who feigns impotence to trick his way into the intimate company of married ladies, Horner soon schools Margery in the...
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