Book contents
- Oliver Goldsmith in Context
- Oliver Goldsmith in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Part I Life and Career
- Part II Social, Cultural, and Intellectual Contexts
- Part III Literary Contexts
- Part IV Critical Fortunes and Afterlives
- Chapter 31 Editions
- Chapter 32 Critical Reception before 1900
- Chapter 33 Critical Reception after 1900
- Chapter 34 Afterlives 1: The Victorian Vicar
- Chapter 35 Afterlives 2: Theatre
- Chapter 36 Afterlives 3: Poetry
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 35 - Afterlives 2: Theatre
from Part IV - Critical Fortunes and Afterlives
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 November 2024
- Oliver Goldsmith in Context
- Oliver Goldsmith in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Part I Life and Career
- Part II Social, Cultural, and Intellectual Contexts
- Part III Literary Contexts
- Part IV Critical Fortunes and Afterlives
- Chapter 31 Editions
- Chapter 32 Critical Reception before 1900
- Chapter 33 Critical Reception after 1900
- Chapter 34 Afterlives 1: The Victorian Vicar
- Chapter 35 Afterlives 2: Theatre
- Chapter 36 Afterlives 3: Poetry
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
Since enjoying a successful premiere run in London in 1773, Oliver Goldsmith’s comedy She Stoops to Conquer has been a fixture on stages across the world. In North America and Australia, it has remained a mainstay on the stages of both bigger and smaller cities since the late eighteenth century (e.g., in the case of the USA, there have been eight significant Broadway and Off-Broadway revivals since 1905). And A. Lytton Sells has written of the play’s perennial popularity on the French stage. By contrast, Sells informs us that Goldsmith’s other full-length play, The Good Natur’d Man (1768), ‘never appealed much to the French’. It did not appeal much to theatre producers and companies in the other countries just mentioned either. This chapter provides an overview of the stage histories of Goldsmith’s two major dramatic works, giving particular emphases to British and Irish stage histories.
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- Oliver Goldsmith in Context , pp. 298 - 305Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024