Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith's 18th century novel "The Vicar of Wakefield" was so popular in Victorian times that it is mentioned in many classics of that era including George Eliot's "Middlemarch," Jane Austen's "Emma," Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" and Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", amongst others. It is the story of Dr. Charles Primrose, the titular Vicar, his wife Deborah and their six children who live an idyllic life in a country parish. The Vicar...
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First performed in 1773, "She Stoops to Conquer" is the timeless comedic drama by Anglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith. The play depicts the story of Charles Marlow, a wealthy young man who is promised in marriage to a woman, Kate Hardcastle that he has never met. While he is eager to meet her and is travelling to her home with his friend, George Hastings, Charles is quite shy in the company of women of wealth. He prefers those of a lower class and...
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The Poetry of Oliver Goldsmith, anthology: Table Of Contents The Traveller, The Deserted Village, Lyrical and Miscellaneous Pieces, On A Beautiful Youth Struck Blind With Lightning, The Gift, The Logicians Refuted, A Sonnet, Stanzas on the Taking of Quebec, And Death of an Elegy, On That Glory of Her Sex, Description of an Author's Bedchamber, On Seeing Mrs. ** Perform In The Character Of ****, Of The Death Of The Right Hon. ***, An Epigram, To G....
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Acorn Media
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[2009]
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2 videodiscs (145 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Kate is a well-bred lass who passes herself off as a barmaid in order to win the heart of her stuffy suitor. Full of mistaken identities and multiple deceptions, the play pokes fun at the various masks we all wear in different social situations. Along the way, each person learns much about the nature of true love.