Word: suitoring
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...elaborate construction designed to poke fun at middle-class "uplifting" comedy and celebrate the comic virtues of members of the "humbler stations." Goldsmith turns a worthy squire's home into an inn, and makes the "inn-keeper's" daughter impersonate a bar maid in order to win a shy suitor. (This gentleman, you see, is comfortable not with "women or reputation and virtue," but only in the company of "creatures of another stamp.") Goldsmith's point is that in order to conquer--or rather, reconquer--comedy too must stoop...
Since Lorca's play is written for an all-female cast, we never see Pepe, the handsome suitor who drives the play to its bloody conclusion. He asks the hand of Angustias, the eldest and richest daughter, a shriveled 39-year-old spinster. At the same time, he carries on an affair with Adela, the youngest Alba daughter and the only beauty in the family. Another sister, the hunchback Martirio, is also in love with Pepe. The rest can be left to the imagination of the reader...
...narrative, however, the humor lags. Mason is disgustingly lecherous enough and Sue Lyon, as a blond-haired, blue-eyed, bud-breasted adolescent, succeeds in making sensitive, intelligent Humbert become just a dirty old man. Shelley Winters, however, as Lolita's mother and Humbert's aggressive, nymphomaniacal, and pscudointellectual suitor, over-acts too much; in trying so hard to make poor Mrs. Haze an interesting character, she becomes a bit tedious and tiresome...
...Long and Happy Life, by Reynolds Price. A wry, humorous, uncommonly good first novel about a North Carolina country girl who does not quite know how to land her laggard suitor, and who, as she learns, finds error a trial...
...flurry of prepublication testimonials and press attention (Harper's magazine will devote most of its April issue to printing the entire novel), Author Price's book is a brief, appealing, generally unpretentious tale of a young girl who does not quite know how to land her laggard suitor, and who, as she learns, finds error a trial. It is a good first novel, masterfully put together, and it deserves its jackpot luck, wrong reasons notwithstanding...