The Beaux' Stratagem
7 best books like The Beaux' Stratagem (George Farquhar): Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, The Country Wife, The Rape of the Lock, The Vicar of Wakefield, The Beggar's Opera, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, The Man of Mode
Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded
| Author | Samuel Richardson |
| ISBN | 0192829602 |
One of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century London, Pamela also marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel. In the words of one contemporary, it divided the world "into two different Parties, Pamelists and Anti-pamelists,"...
| Author | William Wycherley |
| ISBN | 0713632879 |
I taught this play on a yearly basis at the end of the first half of English Lit sophomore survey, Anglo-Saxon to Restoration (more than half except to cramped moderns). After teaching it for the fifth year, it was performed by our best local (Providence, RI) theater; my school had 25 tickets for students,...
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| ISBN | 1557429162 |
I’ve always believed that miracles can happen and that great physical and/or mental suffering can engender greatness. This indeed proved to be the case with this splendid work by Alexander Pope.
I find Pope a fascinating individual. He was a catholic, at a time when legislation was repressive...
| Author | Oliver Goldsmith |
| ISBN | 0192805126 |
Oliver Goldsmith's hugely successful novel of 1766 remained for generations one of the most highly regarded and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction. It depicts the fall and rise of the Primrose family, presided over by the benevolent vicar, the narrator of a fairy-tale plot of impersonation...
| Author | John Gay |
| ISBN | 0140432205 |
An 18th Century parody of the Italian Opera
23 December 2013
I want to give this play a high score simply because of it's context and content, and as it is one of the only satirical operas that has survived from the early 18th Century should also give this play, or more properly opera, some...
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| ISBN | 0192839136 |
Written in one week to defray the cost of his mother's funeral, Johnson's moral tale is a superior example of the prose of its era, and its era—the Age of Enlightenment—is renowned for the quality of its prose. It is true that Candide—written in 1759, the same year as Rasselas--excels Johnson's...
| Author | George Etherege |
| ISBN | 0713666897 |
Verbal brilliance, urbane sophistication and sexual conquest are the measures of success for the fashionable set who watched themselves being represented on the Restoration stage. Yet idealisation and satire, as this edition of Etherege's masterpiece shows, are flip sides of the same coin, and...
