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See also:FARQUHAR, See also:GEORGE (1677-1707) , See also: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 Farquhar, a clergyman, was See also:born in See also:Londonderry, See also:Ireland, in 1677. When he was seventeen he was entered as a See also:sizar at Trinity See also:College, See also:Dublin, under the patronage of Dr See also:Wiseman, See also:bishop of Premiere. He did not See also:long continue his studies, being, according to one See also: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 of his See also:patron. He became an actor on the Dublin See also:stage, but in a See also:fencing See also:scene in See also:Dryden's See also:Indian See also:Emperor he forgot to See also:exchange his See also:sword for a See also:foil, with results which narrowly escaped being fatal to a See also:fellow-actor. After this See also:accident he never appeared on the boards. He had met See also:Robert Wilks, the famous comedian, in Dublin. Though he did not, as generally stated, go to See also:London with Wilks, it was at his See also:suggestion that he wrote his first See also:play, Love and a See also:Bottle, which was performed at See also:Drury See also:Lane, perhaps through Wilks's See also:interest, in 1698. He received from the See also:earl of See also:Orrery a lieutenancy in his See also: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, The See also:Constant Couple: or a Trip to the See also:Jubilee (1699), ridiculing the preparations for the See also:pilgrimage to See also:Rome in the Jubilee See also:year, met with an enthusiastic reception. Wilks as See also:Sir Harry Wildair contributed substantially to its success. In 1701 Farquhar wrote a sequel, Sir Harry Wildair. See also:Leigh See also:Hunt says that Mrs See also:Oldfield, like Wilks, played admirably well in it, but the See also:original See also:Lady Lurewell was Mrs See also:Verbruggen. Mrs Oldfield is said to have been the " See also:Penelope " of Farquhar's letters. In 1702 Farquhar published a slight See also:volume of miscellanies—Love and Business; in a Collection of Occasionary See also:Verse and Epistolary Prose—containing, among other things, " A Discourse on Comedy in ,reference to the See also:English Stage,” in which he defends the English neglect of the dramatic unities. " The rules of English comedy," he says, " See also:don't See also:lie in the See also:compass of See also: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 and galleries." In 1702 he borrowed from See also:Fletcher's See also:Wild See also:Goose See also:Chase, The Inconstant, or the Way k win Hint, in which he followed his original fairly closely except in the last See also:act. In 1703 he married, in the expectation of a See also:fortune, but found too See also:late that he was deceived. It is said that he never reproached his wife, although the See also:marriage increased his liabilities and the See also:rest of his See also:life was a constant struggle against poverty. His other plays are: The Stage See also:Coach (1704), a one-act See also:farce adapted from the See also:French of See also:jean de la Chapelle in See also: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' Stratagem (Haymarket, 1707). The Recruiting Officer was suggested to him by a recruiting expedition (1705) in See also:Shropshire, and is dedicated to his " See also:friends See also: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 disguised as See also:master and servant in the See also:hope of mending their fortune. The play gives vivid pictures of the See also:Lichfield See also:inn with its rascally landlord, and of the domestic affairs of the Sullens. See also:Archer, the supposed See also:valet, whose adventurous spirit secures full play, was one of See also:Garrick's best parts,
Meanwhile one. of his patrons, said to have been the See also:duke of See also: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, 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 from See also:Lintot l;'ne bookseller. The play was staged on the 8th of See also:March, and Farquhar lived to have his third See also:night, and there was an extra benefit on the 29th of See also:April, the See also:day of his death. He See also:left his two See also:children to the care of his friend Wilks. Wilks obtained a benefit at the See also:theatre for the dramatist's widow, but he seems to have done little for the daughters. They were apprenticed to a See also:mantua-maker, and one of them was, as late as 1764, in
See also:receipt of a See also:pension of 20 solicited for her by See also:Edmund See also: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, but his amusing See also:dialogue arises naturally out of the situation, and its wit is never strained. Sergeant See also:Kite in the Recruiting Officer, Scrub, Archer and See also:Boniface in The Beaux' Stratagem are distinct, original characters which had a See also: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 who thoroughly understood the resources of the stage. The spontaneity and verve with which his ad-venturous heroes are See also: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 than the reader might be led to suppose from the " Portrait of Himself " quoted by Leigh Hunt. The See also:code of morals followed by these characters is open to See also:criticism, but they are human and genial in their roguery, and compare far from unfavourably with the cynical creations of contemporary See also:drama. The advance which he made on his immediate predecessors in dramatic construction and in See also:general moral See also:tone is more striking when it is remembered that he died before he was See also:thirty.
Farquhar's dramatic See also:works were published in 1728, 1742 and 1772, and by Thomas Wilkes with a See also:biography in 1775. They were included in the Dramatic Works of See also:Wycherley, Congreve, See also:Vanbrugh and Farquhar (1849), with See also:biographical and See also:critical notices, by Leigh Hunt. See also The Dramatic Works of George Farquhar, with Life and Notes, by A. C. See also:Ewald (2 vols., 1892) ; The Best Plays of George Farquhar (Mermaid See also:series, 1906), with biographical and critical introductions, by William Archer; The Beaux' Stratagem, edited (1898) by H. See also:Macaulay Fitzgibbon for " The See also:Temple Dramatists "; and D. Schmid, " George Farquhar, sein Leben and See also:seine Original-Dramen " (1904) in Wiener Beitrdge zur engl. Philol.
End of Article: FARQUHAR, GEORGE (1677-1707)
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