Farquhar, George
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...country. His plays, written in an atmosphere of genial merriment, represent the transition between the licentiousness of Restoration drama and the sentimentality of the 18th cent. See his complete works (ed. by C. A. Stonehill, 1930); studies by E...