November 26, 2024
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In Oliver Goldsmith’s 224-year-old play “She Stoops to Conquer,” the practical joke rules. Mistaken identities, misinformation and a bit of drunken debauchery are the comedic tricks of Goldsmith’s 18th-century day. It’s a style of well-crafted, twisty-turny dupery-with-a-moral that still manages to make us laugh all these many years… Read More

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