Editing George Farquhar (section)

==Works referencing Farquhar==
* The 1987 play, ''[[Our Country's Good]]'' by [[Timberlake Wertenbaker]], revolves around the story of 18th-century Australian convicts attempting to put on Farquhar's ''The Recruiting Officer.''  Wertenbaker's play is based on a novel by [[Thomas Keneally]].<ref name=myersx1>{{cite book
 | editor-last = Myers
 | editor-first = William
 | title = George Farquhar: The Recruiting Officer and Other Plays
 | publisher = Oxford University Press
 | year = 1995
 | location = Oxford
 | pages = xi
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=B_efAAAACAAJ
 | isbn = 0-19-282249-7 }}</ref>
* [[Bertolt Brecht]] set his adaptation of ''The Recruiting Officer,'' called ''Pauken und Trompeten,'' in America during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]].<ref name="myersx1"/>
* In Act III of ''[[She Stoops to Conquer]]'' by [[Oliver Goldsmith]], Kate Hardcastle asks her maid, "Tell me, Pimple, how do you like my present dress?  Don't you think I look something like Cherry in the ''Beaux Stratagem''?" A theatrical notice in the ''[[New York Times]]'' for 7 February 1885 remarked that at that date Goldsmith's allusion was "all that the stage [had] known of George Farquhar for many a year."<ref name=nyt>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A05E3D81F3BE033A25754C0A9649C94649FD7CF "Daly's Theatre" in the ''New York Times'' for February 7, 1885], accessed on 19 December 2007</ref>
* [[Alexander Pope]] famously refers to the playwright in "The First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated," where he comments (line 288), "What pert low Dialogue has Farqu'ar writ!" (It has been argued that this is not an attack by Pope on Farquhar, but an illustration of "how seldom ev'n the best succeed" two lines earlier.)<ref name=myersxx1>{{cite book
 | editor-last = Myers
 | editor-first = William
 | title = George Farquhar: The Recruiting Officer and Other Plays
 | publisher = Oxford University Press
 | year = 1995
 | location = Oxford
 | pages = xiii, note 15
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=B_efAAAACAAJ
 | isbn = 0-19-282249-7
 | no-pp = true }}</ref>
*In his essay "On Actors and Acting," essayist William Hazlitt praises the reformative power of the last act of Farquar's play ''The Inconstant'', calling it "[t]he most striking lesson ever read to levity and licentiousness...where young Mirabel is preserved by the fidelity of his mistress, Orinda, in the disguise of a page, from the hands of assassins, into whose power he has been allured by the temptations of vice and beauty. There never was a rake who did not become in imagination a reformed man during the representation of the last trying scenes of this admirable comedy."<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Essays of William Hazlitt|last=Hazlitt|first=William|publisher=Coward-McCann|year=1950|location=New York|pages=42}}</ref>