See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

GEORGE See also:

• GEORGE FARQUHAR (1677-1707)

FARQUHAR (1677-1707)  , See also:

• BRITISH

British dramatist, son of See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William See also:

• FARQUHAR, GEORGE (1677-1707)

Farquhar, a clergyman, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• LONDONDERRY
• LONDONDERRY, CHARLES WILLIAM STEWART (VANE), 3RD MARQUESS
• LONDONDERRY, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF
• LONDONDERRY, or DERRY
• LONDONDERRY, ROBERT STEWART, 2ND MARQUESS OF (1769-1822)

Londonderry, See also:

• IRELAND
• IRELAND, CHURCH
• IRELAND, CHURCH OF
• IRELAND, JOHN (1761-1842)
• IRELAND, JOHN (1838- )
• IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY (1777-1835)

Ireland, in 1677 . When he was seventeen he was entered as a See also:

• SIZAR

sizar at Trinity See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

• DUBLIN

Dublin, under the patronage of Dr See also:

• WISEMAN, NICHOLAS PATRICK STEPHEN (1802-1865)

Wiseman, See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

bishop of Premiere . He did not See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long continue his studies, being, according to one See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account, expelled for a profane joke . See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas Wilkes, however, states that the abrupt termination of his studies was due to the See also:

• DEATH

death of his See also:

• PATRON

patron . He became an actor on the Dublin See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage, but in a See also:

• FENCING

fencing See also:

• SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene in See also:

• DRYDEN, JOHN (1631-1700)

Dryden's See also:

• INDIAN

Indian See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

Emperor he forgot to See also:

• EXCHANGE

exchange his See also:

• SWORD (0. Eng. sweord; ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning to wound)

sword for a See also:

• FOIL

foil, with results which narrowly escaped being fatal to a See also:

• FELLOW

fellow-actor . After this See also:

• ACCIDENT
• ACCIDENT (from Lat. accidere, to happen)

accident he never appeared on the boards . He had met See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert Wilks, the famous comedian, in Dublin . Though he did not, as generally stated, go to See also:

• LONDON

London with Wilks, it was at his See also:

• SUGGESTION

suggestion that he wrote his first See also:

• PLAY

play, Love and a See also:

• BOTTLE (Fr. bouteille, from a diminutive of the Lat. butta, a flask; cf. Eng. " butt ")

Bottle, which was performed at See also:

• DRURY, SIR WILLIAM (1527-1579)

Drury See also:

• LANE, EDWARD WILLIAM (1801–1876)
• LANE, JAMES HENRY (1814–1866)

Lane, perhaps through Wilks's See also:

• INTEREST

interest, in 1698 . He received from the See also:

• EARL

earl of See also:

• ORRERY
• ORRERY, ROGER BOYLE, 1ST EARL OF (1621-1679)

Orrery a lieutenancy in his See also:

• REGIMENT (from Late Latin regimentum, rule, regere, to rule, govern, direct)

regiment, then in Ireland, but in two letters of his dated from See also:

• HOLLAND
• HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
• HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
• HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
• HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
• HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
• HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
• HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART

Holland in 1700 he says nothing of military service . His second See also:

• COMEDY

comedy, The See also:

• CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)

Constant Couple: or a Trip to the See also:

• JUBILEE (or JUBILE), YEAR OF

Jubilee (1699), ridiculing the preparations for the See also:

• PILGRIMAGE (Fr. pelerinage, Lat. peregrinatio)

pilgrimage to See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome in the Jubilee See also:

• YEAR

year, met with an enthusiastic reception . Wilks as See also:

• SIR

Sir Harry Wildair contributed substantially to its success . In 1701 Farquhar wrote a sequel, Sir Harry Wildair .

See also:

• LEIGH
• LEIGH, EDWARD (1602–1671)

Leigh See also:

• HUNT, ALFRED WILLIAM (183o-1896)
• HUNT, HENRY (1i73-1835)
• HUNT, HENRY JACKSON (1819-1889)
• HUNT, JAMES HENRY LEIGH (1784-1859)
• HUNT, ROBERT (1807-1887)
• HUNT, THOMAS STERRY (1826-1892)
• HUNT, WILLIAM HENRY (1790—1864)
• HUNT, WILLIAM HOLMAN (1827-1910)
• HUNT, WILLIAM MORRIS (1824-1879)

Hunt says that Mrs See also:

• OLDFIELD, ANNE (1683–173o)

Oldfield, like Wilks, played admirably well in it, but the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original See also:

• LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

Lady Lurewell was Mrs See also:

• VERBRUGGEN, SUSANNA (c. 1667-1703)

Verbruggen . Mrs Oldfield is said to have been the " See also:

• PENELOPE

Penelope " of Farquhar's letters . In 1702 Farquhar published a slight See also:

• VOLUME

volume of miscellanies—Love and Business; in a Collection of Occasionary See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

Verse and Epistolary See also:

• PROSE

Prose—containing, among other things, " A Discourse on Comedy in ,reference to the See also:

• ENGLISH

English Stage,” in which he defends the English neglect of the dramatic unities . " The rules of English comedy," he says, " See also:

• DON
• DON (anc. Tanais)

don't See also:

• LIE, JONAS LAURITZ EDEMIL (1833—1908)
• LIE, MARIUS SOPHUS (1842–1899)

lie in the See also:

• COMPASS (Fr. corn pas, ultimately from Lat. cum, with, and passus, step)

compass of See also:

• ARISTOTLE
• ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.)

Aristotle or his followers, but in the See also:

• PIT (O. E. pytt, cognate with Du. put, Ger. Pfutze, &c., all ultimately adaptations of Lat. puteus, well, formed from root pu-, to cleanse, whence gurus, clean, pure)

pit, See also:

• BOX
• BOX (Gr. irl or, Lat. buxus, box-wood; cf. 2r6Eir, a pyx)

box and galleries." In 1702 he borrowed from See also:

• FLETCHER, ALICE CUNNINGHAM (1845– )
• FLETCHER, ANDREW
• FLETCHER, GILES (c. 1548-1611)
• FLETCHER, GILES (c. 1584-1623)
• FLETCHER, JOHN WILLIAM (1729-1785)
• FLETCHER, PHINEAS (1582-1650)

Fletcher's See also:

• WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

Wild See also:

• GOOSE (a common Teut. word, O. Eng. gOs, pl. ges, Ger. Gans, O. Norse gas, from Aryan root, ghans, whence Sans. hansa, Lat. anser (for hanser)
• GOOSE (GAME OF)

Goose See also:

• CHASE
• CHASE, SALMON PORTLAND (1808-1873)
• CHASE, SAMUEL (1741–1811)
• CHASE, WILLIAM MERRITT (1849– )

Chase, The Inconstant, or the Way k win Hint, in which he followed his original fairly closely except in the last See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act . In 1703 he married, in the expectation of a See also:

• FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

fortune, but found too See also:

• LATE

late that he was deceived . It is said that he never reproached his wife, although the See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage increased his liabilities and the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of his See also:

• LIFE

life was a constant struggle against poverty . His other plays are: The Stage See also:

• COACH (through the Fr. coche, originally from the Magyar kocsi, an adjective from the Hungarian place named Kocs, between Raab and Buda, i.e. the sort of vehicle used there in the 15th century)

Coach (1704), a one-act See also:

• FARCE

farce adapted from the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French of See also:

• JEAN

jean de la Chapelle in See also:

• CONJUNCTION (from Lat. conjungere, to join together)

conjunction with See also:

• PETER
• PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
• PETER (PEDRO)
• PETER, EPISTLES OF
• PETER, ST

Peter Motteux; The Twin Rivals (Drury Lane, 1702); The Recruiting Officer (Drury Lane, 1706); and The See also:

• BEAUX, CECILIA (1863– )

Beaux' Stratagem (Haymarket, 1707) . The Recruiting Officer was suggested to him by a recruiting expedition (1705) in See also:

• SHROPSHIRE (SALOP)

Shropshire, and is dedicated to his " See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round the Wrekin." The Beaux' Stratagem is the best of all his plays, and long kept the stage . Genest notes nineteen revivals up to 1828 . Two embarrassed gentlemen travel in the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country disguised as See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master and servant in the See also:

• HOPE, ANTHONY
• HOPE, THOMAS (c. 1770-1831)

hope of mending their fortune . The play gives vivid pictures of the See also:

• LICHFIELD

Lichfield See also:

• INN

inn with its rascally landlord, and of the domestic affairs of the Sullens . See also:

• ARCHER, WILLIAM (1856— )

Archer, the supposed See also:

• VALET (Fr. valet; O. Fr. vaslet)

valet, whose adventurous spirit secures full play, was one of See also:

• GARRICK, DAVID (1717-1779)

Garrick's best parts, Meanwhile one. of his patrons, said to have been the See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of See also:

• ORMOND

Ormond, had advised Farquhar to sell out of his regiment, and had promised to give him a captaincy in his own .

Farquhar sold his See also:

• COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission, but the duke's promise remained unfulfilled . Before be had finished the second act of The Beaux' Stratagem he knew that he was stricken with a mortal illness, but it was necessary to persevere and to be " consumedly lively to the end." He., had received in advance £30 for the See also:

• COPYRIGHT

copyright from See also:

• LINTOT, BARNABY BERNARD (1675-1736)

Lintot l;'ne bookseller . The play was staged on the 8th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March, and Farquhar lived to have his third See also:

• NIGHT

night, and there was an extra benefit on the 29th of See also:

• APRIL

April, the See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day of his death . He See also:

• LEFT

left his two See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children to the care of his friend Wilks . Wilks obtained a benefit at the See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre for the dramatist's widow, but he seems to have done little for the daughters . They were apprenticed to a See also:

• MANTUA (Ital. Mantova)

mantua-maker, and one of them was, as late as 1764, in See also:

• RECEIPT (M.E. receite, derived through Fr. from Lat. recepta, participle of recipere, to receive)

receipt of a See also:

• PENSION (Lat. pensio, a payment, from pendere, to weigh, to pay)

pension of 20 solicited for her by See also:

• EDMUND
• EDMUND, or EADMUND (c. 980-1016)
• EDMUND, SAINT [EDMUND RICE] (d. 1240)

Edmund See also:

• CHALONER, SIR THOMAS (1521-1565)

Chaloner, a patron of Farquhar . She was then described as a maidservant and possessed of sentiments " fitted to her humble situation." The plots of Farquhar's comedies are ingenious in conception and skilfully conducted . He has no pretensions to the brilliance of See also:

• CONGREVE, RICHARD (1818-1899)
• CONGREVE, SIR WILLIAM
• CONGREVE, WILLIAM (167o-1729)

Congreve, but his amusing See also:

• DIALOGUE

dialogue arises naturally out of the situation, and its wit is never strained . Sergeant See also:

• KITE

Kite in the Recruiting Officer, Scrub, Archer and See also:

• BONIFACE (Bonifacius)
• BONIFACE, SAINT (680-754)

Boniface in The Beaux' Stratagem are distinct, original characters which had a See also:

• GREAT

great success on the boards, and the unexpected incidents and adventures in which they are mixed up are represented in an irresistibly comic manner by a See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man who thoroughly understood the resources of the stage . The spontaneity and verve with which his ad-venturous heroes are See also:

• DRAWN

drawn have suggested that in his favourite type he was describing himself . His own disposition seems to have been most lovable, and he was apparently a much gayer See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person than the reader might be led to suppose from the " Portrait of Himself " quoted by Leigh Hunt . The See also:

• CODE (Lat. codex)

code of morals followed by these characters is open to See also:

• CRITICISM
• CRITICISM (from the Gr. KpiTrlS, a judge, Kpivew, to decide, to give an authoritative opinion)

criticism, but they are human and genial in their roguery, and compare far from unfavourably with the cynical creations of contemporary See also:

• DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama .

The advance which he made on his immediate predecessors in dramatic construction and in See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general moral See also:

• TONE, THEOBALD WOLFE (1763-1798)

tone is more striking when it is remembered that he died before he was See also:

• THIRTY

thirty . Farquhar's dramatic See also:

• WORKS

works were published in 1728, 1742 and 1772, and by Thomas Wilkes with a See also:

• BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

biography in 1775 . They were included in the Dramatic Works of See also:

• WYCHERLEY, WILLIAM (c. 1640-1716)

Wycherley, Congreve, See also:

• VANBRUGH, SIR JOHN (1664-1726)

Vanbrugh and Farquhar (1849), with See also:

• BIOGRAPHICAL

biographical and See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical notices, by Leigh Hunt . See also The Dramatic Works of See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George Farquhar, with Life and Notes, by A . C . See also:

• EWALD, GEORG HEINRICH AUGUST VON (1803-1875)
• EWALD, JOHANNES (1743-1781)

Ewald (2 vols., 1892) ; The Best Plays of George Farquhar (Mermaid See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series, 1906), with biographical and critical introductions, by William Archer; The Beaux' Stratagem, edited (1898) by H . See also:

• MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, BARON (1800-1859)

Macaulay Fitzgibbon for " The See also:

• TEMPLE
• TEMPLE, FREDERICK (1821-1902)
• TEMPLE, RICHARD
• TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD, BART
• TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, BART

Temple Dramatists "; and D . Schmid, " George Farquhar, sein Leben and See also:

• SEINE
• SEINE (Lat. Sequana)
• SEINE, or SEAN (O. Fr. seigne, mod. seine, Lat. sagena, Gr. vaytivrl, a draw-net)

seine Original-Dramen " (1904) in Wiener Beitrdge zur engl . Philol .