{"product_id":"recruiting-officer-the","title":"Recruiting Officer, The","description":"This completely new edition of The Recruiting Officer contains a freshly-edited play text, with new annotations, in modern spelling. Tiffany Stern''s comprehensive and engaging introduction discusses the author''s career and gives a history of the play including its staging, critical interpretation, date and sources, putting it its context of the late Restoration and illuminating its theatrical vivacity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFarquhar''s The Recruiting Officer is set in Shrewsbury in 1704 and describes what happens in a country town when the army come to stay. With cross-dressing and confusion in plenty, this is a comedy exploring the timeless themes of love and war. One of Farquhar''s last two plays, The Recruiting Officer is both entertaining and touching. It has a light, humane touch and its original depiction of a real-life provincial town comically explores the impact that ongoing warfare had on its civilian society.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58113328873807,"sku":"9780713673791","price":25.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9780713673791_1-recruiting-officer-the.jpg?v=1782963443","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/recruiting-officer-the","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}