SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY G. A. F. M. CHATWIN, M.A. ASSISTANT MASTER AT RUGBY SCHOOL OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1912 HENRY FROWDE, M.A. PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD LONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORK TORONTO AND MELBOURNE COPERIAL 20/9/1912) LIBRARY PREFATORY NOTE THE text of the play, apart from a very few slight alterations which I have made, is that prepared by Mr. C. E. Doble for the Oxford edition of The Plays and The Vicar of Wakefield. It has not been thought neces sary to introduce consistency into Goldsmith's spelling and punctuation. For much of the Introduction I am indebted to Mr. Austin Dobson's Life of Goldsmith in the Great Writers series, and to Mr. William Black's Life in the English Men of Letters series, as well as to the standard work by Forster; and for many of my notes I have drawn on the work of previous editors, especially on Mr. Doble's edition. To several friends who have helped me on points of detail my thanks are due. G. A. F. M. C. |