Books and Articles
BOOKS
Farquhar and his Plays
Ewald, Alex Charles, ed. The Dramatic Works of George Farquhar. Volume I. London: John C. Nimmo, 1892. [Includes Love and a Bottle, The Constant Couple, Sir Harry Wildair, and The Inconstant.]
Farquhar, George. The Beaux' Stratagem. 1707. London: Henry Lintot, 1752.
Farquhar, George. The Beaux' Stratagem. 1707. Ed. Michael Cordner. New York: W.W. Norton, 1990 (this form first pub. 1976). The New Mermaids.
Farquhar, George. The Beaux' Stratagem. 1707. Ed. Charles N. Fifer. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1977. Regents Restoration Drama Series.
Farquhar, George. "A Discourse upon Comedy in Reference to the English Stage." 1702. Dramatic Theory and Criticism: Greeks to Grotowski. Bernard F. Dukore, ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1974. 376-85. [Dukore's book offers further pieces useful for contextualizing Farquhar and his play, and is otherwise a quite laudable source for a ranging collection of critical pieces.]
Farquhar, George. A Discourse upon Comedy, The Recruiting Officer, and The Beaux' Stratagem. Ed. Louis A. Strauss. Boston: D.C. Heath & Co., 1914.
Kenny, Shirley Strum, ed. The Works of George Farquhar. Oxford: Clarendon Press. [Volume II, published in 1988, contains The Beaux' Stratagem, along with The Recruiting Officer, collected prologues and epilogues, and a number of non-theatrical pieces. Kenny's introductions prove informative regarding the particular works and Farquhar himself; the Beaxu' Stratagem introduction might be of particular use.]
Rothstein, Eric. George Farquhar. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1967.
Eighteenth Century, General
Dickinson, H.T. A Companion to Eighteenth-century Britain. 2002. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
Gregory, Jeremy and John Stevenson. The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Eighteenth Century: 1688-1820. New York: Routledge, 2007. [A quite substantial collection of data and brief informational summaries. Contents include, for instance, a chronology of Ireland stretching from 1688 to 1823, population tables, a set of accounts of British military campaigns, and a summary of the various aspects of local government. The book also includes a set of quick biographies and a brief glossary.]
Mackie, Erin, ed. The Commerce of Everyday Life: Selections from The Tatler and The Spectator. Bedford/St. Martin’s: Boston and New York, 1998. [Particularly useful for contemporary glances of early-18th-century society, and quite close in time to The Beaux' Stratagem. Mackie offers a diverse and well-organized collection of articles from The Tatler and The Spectator, along with supplements from other papers and sources that help to provide a broader view of the scenes.]
Porter, Roy. English Society in the Eighteenth Century. 1982. New York: Penguin Books, 1991.
A Short Account of the City and Close of Lichfield. Lichfield: T.G. Lomax, 1819. Google Books.
Eighteenth Century Theatre
Hume, Robert D., ed. The London Theatre World, 1660-1800. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1980.
Kewes, Paulina. Authorship and Appropriation: Writing for the Stage in England, 1660-1710. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. [A bit particular, and perhaps not the most closely related to Beaux' Stratagem, but offers an informative look at print culture and the trials and debates that Farquhar might have faced as a playwright.]
Nicoll, Allardyce. A History of Early Eighteenth Century Drama, 1700-1750. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1925.
Thomas, David. Restoration and Georgian England, 1660-1788. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. [Pretty thoroughly excellent wealth of theatre-related documents. Highly recommended resource.]
Ewald, Alex Charles, ed. The Dramatic Works of George Farquhar. Volume I. London: John C. Nimmo, 1892. [Includes Love and a Bottle, The Constant Couple, Sir Harry Wildair, and The Inconstant.]
Farquhar, George. The Beaux' Stratagem. 1707. London: Henry Lintot, 1752.
Farquhar, George. The Beaux' Stratagem. 1707. Ed. Michael Cordner. New York: W.W. Norton, 1990 (this form first pub. 1976). The New Mermaids.
Farquhar, George. The Beaux' Stratagem. 1707. Ed. Charles N. Fifer. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1977. Regents Restoration Drama Series.
Farquhar, George. "A Discourse upon Comedy in Reference to the English Stage." 1702. Dramatic Theory and Criticism: Greeks to Grotowski. Bernard F. Dukore, ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1974. 376-85. [Dukore's book offers further pieces useful for contextualizing Farquhar and his play, and is otherwise a quite laudable source for a ranging collection of critical pieces.]
Farquhar, George. A Discourse upon Comedy, The Recruiting Officer, and The Beaux' Stratagem. Ed. Louis A. Strauss. Boston: D.C. Heath & Co., 1914.
Kenny, Shirley Strum, ed. The Works of George Farquhar. Oxford: Clarendon Press. [Volume II, published in 1988, contains The Beaux' Stratagem, along with The Recruiting Officer, collected prologues and epilogues, and a number of non-theatrical pieces. Kenny's introductions prove informative regarding the particular works and Farquhar himself; the Beaxu' Stratagem introduction might be of particular use.]
Rothstein, Eric. George Farquhar. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1967.
Eighteenth Century, General
Dickinson, H.T. A Companion to Eighteenth-century Britain. 2002. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
Gregory, Jeremy and John Stevenson. The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Eighteenth Century: 1688-1820. New York: Routledge, 2007. [A quite substantial collection of data and brief informational summaries. Contents include, for instance, a chronology of Ireland stretching from 1688 to 1823, population tables, a set of accounts of British military campaigns, and a summary of the various aspects of local government. The book also includes a set of quick biographies and a brief glossary.]
Mackie, Erin, ed. The Commerce of Everyday Life: Selections from The Tatler and The Spectator. Bedford/St. Martin’s: Boston and New York, 1998. [Particularly useful for contemporary glances of early-18th-century society, and quite close in time to The Beaux' Stratagem. Mackie offers a diverse and well-organized collection of articles from The Tatler and The Spectator, along with supplements from other papers and sources that help to provide a broader view of the scenes.]
Porter, Roy. English Society in the Eighteenth Century. 1982. New York: Penguin Books, 1991.
A Short Account of the City and Close of Lichfield. Lichfield: T.G. Lomax, 1819. Google Books.
Eighteenth Century Theatre
Hume, Robert D., ed. The London Theatre World, 1660-1800. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1980.
Kewes, Paulina. Authorship and Appropriation: Writing for the Stage in England, 1660-1710. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. [A bit particular, and perhaps not the most closely related to Beaux' Stratagem, but offers an informative look at print culture and the trials and debates that Farquhar might have faced as a playwright.]
Nicoll, Allardyce. A History of Early Eighteenth Century Drama, 1700-1750. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1925.
Thomas, David. Restoration and Georgian England, 1660-1788. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. [Pretty thoroughly excellent wealth of theatre-related documents. Highly recommended resource.]
ARTICLES
Jordan, Robert John. “George Farquhar’s Military Career.” Huntington Library Quarterly, 37.3 (May, 1974): p. 251-264.
Milhous, Judith and Robert D. Hume. "The Beaux' Stratagem: A Production Analysis." Theatre Journal, 34.1 (Mar 1982): p. 77. [Along with a quite thorough analysis of questions that might arise when considering production, Milhous and Hume level a close investigation of the original production, its cast and likely details.]
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