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It links dramatic “laughing comedy” features to the text, contrasting it with sentimental comedies and highlighting elements such as classical low comedy, mistaken identity, disguise, and deception. 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This document is intended to provide a starting point for teachers in their thinking and planning in that it gives an introductory overview of how the text can be considered through the lens of the genre. There are some brief comments on how some elements of the genre can be linked to the text, although teachers and students may well think of other relevant ideas. Not all of the texts on the set texts list contain every element of the genre and that is reflected in this commentary. It is hoped this will provide a useful starting point and a springboard for thinking about the text in more detail.  \n“So then, all's out, and I have been damnably imposed on. O, confound my stupid head, I shall be laughed at over the whole town …To mistake this house of all others for an inn, and my father's old friend for an innkeeper!”  \nOverview  \nThere should not be any difficulty understanding why She Stoops to Conquer appears on a paper called aspects of comedy; it has much in common with the other comedy texts that appear there. It is a dramatic comedy above all else and, as many of its commentators and admirers have noted since its first performance, it is a “laughing comedy”, a very funny play at which the audience laughs aloud. Goldsmith himself, in his original dedication to Samuel Johnson, refers to the play as “a comedy not merely sentimental” which seems to point up that, unlike some other plays of the eighteenth century, this comedy is actually funny. Indeed, in the Prologue and Epilogue, Goldsmith says much about how this play differs from the sentimental comedies of his day which he mocks and castigates. She Stoops to Conquer, unlike sentimental comedies, is a classical low comedy containing a host of comic characters and an absurdly unbelievable plot based on mistaken identity, disguise and trickery. Its original title was The  \nMistakes of a Night and the play does indeed follow the Unity of Time in that the action covers the events of one evening. Some critics argue that it also partly adheres to the Unities of Place and Action as the sub-plot is so closely connected to the main plot and the action mostly takes place in one location, the country residence of Mr and Mrs Hardcastle.  \nDisguise, deception and mistaken identity  \nThese are key aspects of comedy and they form the basis of the plot of She Stoops to Conquer. The play’s title is revealing in this respect, suggesting the subterfuge which is about to take place where the protagonist is a woman. Kate‘stoops’, in taking on the guise of a lower class barmaid, to conquer the affections of the reticent Marlow. The overarching plot is set in motion by Tony Lumpkin, the play’s fool and mischief maker, who convinces Marlow and Hastings that Mr Hardcastle’s home is in fact an inn and Mr Hardcastle himself the innkeeper. It is interesting that the high born town dweller, Marlow, is thus duped twice. Goldsmith makes the improbable misunderstandings work because of the country/town dichotomy and the differing prevailing attitudes of the town and country folk. The two Londoners, Marlow and Hastings, are ever ready to display their arrogance and behave contemptuously towards the man they believe is an innkeeper; they, who have all the manners and sophistication, also cannot imagine that they can be tricked by a country bumpkin and Marlow could never imagine that he is being tricked by the demure Kate. Goldsmith also creates the well-meaning and unsuspecting Hardcastles, representatives of the countryside to ensure the success of Lumpkin’s trick. They are somewhat in awe of the two young gentlemen, one of whom they expect to marry their daughter, and will it seems accept any display of condescending manners from them, no matter how ‘impudent’. While Mr Hardcastle and his guests are unaware of the trick being played on","cbCaibZXcHWG4P2R","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibZXcHWG4P2R","pdf",91998,"English","# Overview\n## Disguise, deception and mistaken identity\n## Comic characters and comic scenes","[{\"question\":\"Why does She Stoops to Conquer fit the genre of comedy in this overview?\",\"answer\":\"It is described as a dramatic “laughing comedy,” emphasized as genuinely funny rather than sentimental. The text highlights mistaken identity and an absurdly unbelievable low-comedy plot as core genre features.\"},{\"question\":\"What key mechanism drives the plot according to the document?\",\"answer\":\"Disguise, deception, and mistaken identity. Tony Lumpkin convinces Marlow and Hastings that Hardcastle’s home is an inn, while multiple other characters also conceal their true intentions.\"},{\"question\":\"What comic characters and relationships does the document focus on?\",\"answer\":\"The overview highlights Tony Lumpkin and his protective, vain, eccentric mother as major comic figures. It also emphasizes how their stand-off helps create the play’s “laughing comedy” effect.\"}]","Aspects of comedy - She Stoops to Conquer | PDF",1792467903,13]