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by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

George Farquhar (1678-1707)

(British dramatist, b. North Ireland, l. London)

Works

Farquhar, George. Love and a Bottle. Comedy. 1698.

_____. The Adventures of Covent Garden. Comedy. 1699.

_____. The Constant Couple, or a Trip to the Jubilee. Comedy. 1700.

_____. Familiar and Courtly Letters. 2 vols. 1700-1.

_____. Sir Harry Wildair. Comedy. 1701.

_____. The Inconstant. comedy. 1702.

_____. Love and Business in a Collection of Occasionary Verse and Epistolary Prose. 1702.

_____. "A Discourse upon Comedy, in Reference to the English Stage." 1702.

_____. Love and Business in a Collection of Occasional Verse and Epistolary Prose. A Discourse Likewise upon Comedy. 1702.

_____. The Twin Rivals. Comedy. 1702.

_____. The Stage-Coach. Comedy. 1704.

_____. The Recruiting Officer. Comedy. 1706.

_____. The Beaux' Stratagem. Comedy. 1707.

_____. The Beaux-Stratagem. In Restoration Plays. Ed. Sir Edmund Gosse. London: Dent; New York: Dutton, 1912. 1962. 311-78.*

_____. The Beaux' Stratagem. Ed. Vincent F. Hopper and Gerald R. Lahey. Great Neck (NY), 1963.

_____. The Beaux' Stratagem. (New Mermaids). London: E. Benn, 1976.

_____. Barcellona: A Poem. 1710.

_____. Comedies. 1710.

_____. Works. 2 vols. 1711.

_____. George Farquhar. (Mermaid Series). Ed. William Archer. 1906.

_____. Dramatic Works. Ed. A. C. Ewald. 2 vols. 1892.

_____. Complete Works. Ed. C. A. Stonehill. 2 vols. 1930.

_____. The Works of George Farquhar. Ed. Shirley Strum Kenny. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1988-.

_____. The Recruiting Officer and Other Plays. Ed. William Myers. (Oxford Drama Library / World's Classics). Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995.

Criticism

Bull, John. Vanbrugh and Farquhar. (English Dramatists). Houndmills: Macmillan, 1998.

Connnelly, Willard. Young George Farquhar: The Restoration Drama at Twilight. 1949.

James, Eugene N. "The Burlesque of Restoration Comedy in Love and a Bottle." (Farquhar). Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 5 (1965): 469-90.

Rothstein, Eric. "Farquhar's Twin-Rivals and the Reform of Comedy." PMLA 79 (1964): 33-41.

Spinner, Kaspar. George Farquhar als Dramatiker. Bern, 1956.

Sutherland, J. R. "New Light on George Farquhar." TLS 6 March 1937: 171.

Trussler, Simon. "9. The Birth of a Bourgeois Theatre 1682-1707." In Trussler, The Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. pbk 2000. 134-45.* (The lean years of the United Company: plays, politics, audiences. Betterton defects to Lincoln's Inn. Attitudes to actresses, and the development of the benefit system. Formulating the 'rules' of acting. The rise of the younger generation, and the significance of Colley Cibber. The Collier controversy, the city, and the credit economy. George Farquhar, and 'hard' versus 'humane' comedy. The female wits. A new 'war of the theatres'. The companies reunited).