How is the 18th century country life portrayed in Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer?
Ans. - Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer or The Mistakes of a Night is an anti-sentimental drama that was written during late 18th century and was first published in 1771 and performed in 1773. The drama with its hypocritical characters and ideologies mirrored the political and historical background of England at that age. Goldsmith might well have polishes here for his motto the dictum 'mores hominum multorum vidit' (Ars Poetica), that is, 'the mores and manners of many people are to be seen'.
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