The Prologue to this work suggests that "When Anna's sceptre points the laws their course... there scarce is room for satire," and is spoken by Mr. Wilks.
The Prologue to this work suggests that "When Anna's sceptre points the laws their course... there scarce is room for satire," and is spoken by Mr. Wilks. After kissing a maid named Cherry, one character compares her lips to honeycombs, to which she replies that she wishes there had been bees too, to sting him for his impudence. In this play, the highwayman Gibbet makes a plan to rob the household of a character who is flirting with the captive French officer Bellair, while Foigard is revealed to be an Irishman posing as a Frenchman in this play. This work's first act opens with a scene in which one of the main characters drinks some "confounded strong" ale served by Boniface, who tells that character about Lady Bountiful. The arrival of Sir Charles Freeman, who confirms the story of the death of the eldest brother of the two main characters, results in an inheritance for one of the main characters and the separation of Freeman's sister from her brutish husband. Ending with Archer engineering Mrs. Sullen's divorce from her husband and Aimwell's marriage to Dorinda, for ten points, identify this late Restoration comedy, the most famous work of George Farquhar.
The Prologue to this work suggests that "When Anna's sceptre points the laws their course... there scarce is room for satire," and is spoken by Mr. Wilks.
The {Beaux' Stratagem}