Oliver Goldsmith was a prominent Irish novelist and playwright in the 18th century. Goldsmith is best remembered for having written the plays She Stoops to Conquer, and The Good-Natured Man, as well as the novel The Vicar of Wakefield. She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy that was first performed in 1773. The action centers around Kate, the daughter of a wealthy countryman, who tries to win the heart of Charles Marlow by pretending to be an ordinary hard-working woman. The play is still widely performed and has been adapted into movies on many occasions.
Oliver Goldsmith was a prominent Irish novelist and playwright in the 18th century. Goldsmith is best remembered for having written the plays She Stoo...
Oliver Goldsmith was a prominent Irish novelist and playwright in the 18th century. Goldsmith is best remembered for having written the plays She Stoops to Conquer, and The Good-Natured Man, as well as the novel The Vicar of Wakefield. She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy that was first performed in 1773. The action centers around Kate, the daughter of a wealthy countryman, who tries to win the heart of Charles Marlow by pretending to be an ordinary hard-working woman. The play is still widely performed and has been adapted into movies on many occasions.
Oliver Goldsmith was a prominent Irish novelist and playwright in the 18th century. Goldsmith is best remembered for having written the plays She Stoo...
Oliver Goldsmith was a prominent Irish novelist and playwright in the 18th century. Goldsmith is best remembered for having written the plays She Stoops to Conquer, and The Good-Natured Man, as well as the novel The Vicar of Wakefield. The Good-Natured Man is a comedy that was first performed in 1768. The play is notable for being released at the same time as Hugh Kelly's False Delicacy at the Drury Lane Theatre.
Oliver Goldsmith was a prominent Irish novelist and playwright in the 18th century. Goldsmith is best remembered for having written the plays She Stoo...
Oliver Goldsmith was a prominent Irish novelist and playwright in the 18th century. Goldsmith is best remembered for having written the plays She Stoops to Conquer, and The Good-Natured Man, as well as the novel The Vicar of Wakefield. The Good-Natured Man is a comedy that was first performed in 1768. The play is notable for being released at the same time as Hugh Kelly's False Delicacy at the Drury Lane Theatre.
Oliver Goldsmith was a prominent Irish novelist and playwright in the 18th century. Goldsmith is best remembered for having written the plays She Stoo...
Oliver Goldsmith was a prominent Irish novelist and playwright in the 18th century. Goldsmith is best remembered for having written the novel The Vicar of Wakefield, as well as the plays She Stoops to Conquer, and The Good-Natured Man. The Vicar of Wakefield, published in 1766, tells the classic story of a wealthy vicar and his family who have their near-perfect lives turned upside down when they lose all their money.
Oliver Goldsmith was a prominent Irish novelist and playwright in the 18th century. Goldsmith is best remembered for having written the novel The Vica...
Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774) was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771). He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, the source of the phrase "goody two-shoes." In this book: The Vicar of Wakefield She Stoops to Conquer An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog An elegy on the glory of her sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes
Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774) was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) and She...
Two of the earlier, and, in some respects, more important 'Memoirs' of Oliver Goldsmith open with a quotation from one of his minor works, in which he refers to the generally uneventful life of the scholar. His own chequered career was a notable exception to this rule. He was born on the 10th of November, 1728, at Pallas, a village in the county of Longford in Ireland, his father, the Rev. Charles Goldsmith, being a clergyman of the Established Church. Oliver was the fifth of a family of five sons and three daughters. In 1730, his father, who had been assisting the rector of the neighbouring...
Two of the earlier, and, in some respects, more important 'Memoirs' of Oliver Goldsmith open with a quotation from one of his minor works, in which he...
