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![]() ![]() 1 Oliver Goldsmith's comedy, like Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser (1845) (the opera we have in place of his projected dramatization of Luther's wedding), is an object lesson in learning to see a bourgeois wife. The play ends with the proclamation of a wedding the following day when Charles Marlow is to take as his wife the woman he previously considers unmarriageable because she appears to him, alternately, the focus of too great a reverence and the mere quarry of a passing and socially inconsequential passion. And that should be enough to put us on our guard. It celebrates it without being able to represent it. ![]() ![]() At least as far as its central couple is concerned, She Stoops to Conquer: Or, The Mistakes of a Night (1773) is a celebration of bourgeois marriage. ![]()
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