Word: farquaar
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...Copeland brought out clearly and forcibly the virtues and the faults of the old-comedy writers. No one felt the influence of the Puritan spirit less than Wycherly, Congreve and Farquaar. These men saw the follies and fashions of the time, thought they represented real life and as such chose to depict them. Now we realize that the world they lived in was only the artificial world. An example of a contemporary production which suffers from the same fault is Mr. Oscar Wilde's "A Woman of No Importance...
...writers, Congreve was perhaps the wittiest. Farquaar excelled in the splendid action which he introduced into his plays. Nowhere does this come nearer perfection than in "The Beaux Stratagem." The other of Farquaar's plays which every one should read is "Sir Harry Wildair." Charles Lamb always claimed that these plays were not immoral in their influence for the simple reason that no one believed in them. The heroes are essentially gentlemen,-or rather "truly good fellows," in spite of their seeming indecency. From Farquaar Sheridan really got his Charles Surface and Captain Absolute...
...After Farquaar came Goldsmith. One may well feel proud that such a play as "She Stoops to Conquer" was written in his language. The sympathy with life and the knowledge of character which it shows together with the grace of its English are irresistible...
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