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 here with the conflict between virtue and vice, and with the importance of money and its influence on personal freedom. Based on a collation of eight copies of the first quarto, this edition includes extensive discussion of text and stage history.
- ISBN10 1670366758
- ISBN13 9781670366757
- Publish Date 1 December 2019 (first published 1 December 1964)
- Publish Status Temporarily Withdrawn
- Imprint Independently Published
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 242
- Language English