Easily one of the best to come out of the Restoration period. It ist funny, though not as full of comical devices as The Man of Mode or the Country Wife, but what I like especialy about it is the unusual way the play deals with the problem of marital disharmony. Farquhar treats his characters with a certain sympathy and thereby surpresses the malicious and insipid tone that is so typical for earlier Restoration plays. If you like reading plays written and performed in the 17th century, buy this one if you haven't allready.

These plays are fun to read. They might seem old fashioned because they were written two hundred years ago, but actually I think they are relevant today and any day. I've read all four plays already dozens of times, and I wish more people could become acquainted with this period's marvelous literature.

A crisp, clear edition of the famous play about a whoremastering Captain who, because his Shropshire lass stoops to conquer, winds up manning a playhouse.