A Discourse Upon Comedy

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Excerpt from A Discourse Upon Comedy: The Recruiting Officer and the Beaux Stratagem Early in the following year Farquhar produced The Inconstant or the Way to W in Hint. It is founded upon The Wild Goose Chase of Fletcher. While not a complete failure (six performances) the play had less success than its merits and the reputation of its author would lead us to expect. Farquhar explained its poor reception as due to the eclipse of English comedy by French dancing. The Twin Rivals, Dec. 14, 1702, shared the same fate. This play was Far quhar's answer to Collier's Short View, its design being to prove that an English comedy may answer the strictness of poetical justice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.