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Description

This completely new edition of The Recruiting Officer contains a freshly-edited play text; with new annotations; in modern spelling. Tiffany Sterns comprehensive and engaging introduction discusses the authors career and gives a history of the play including its staging; critical interpretation; date and sources; putting it its context of the late Restoration and illuminating its theatrical vivacity.Farquhars The Recruiting Officer is set in Shrewsbury in 1704 and describes what happens in a country town when the army come to stay. With cross-dressing and confusion in plenty; this is a comedy exploring the timeless themes of love and war. One of Farquhars last two plays; The Recruiting Officer is both entertaining and touching. It has a light; humane touch and its original depiction of a real-life provincial town comically explores the impact that ongoing warfare had on its civilian society.