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1. Neo classical Literature
Name :- Virani Dhara R.
Roll No :- 06
Topic :- Oliver Goldsmith
Sem :- 1 M. A. (English)
Batch :- 2019-2021
Email Id :- dharavirani601@gmail.com
Submitted to :- Department of English (M.K.B.U.)

2. Anti- Sentimental Comedy
❖ An anti- sentimental comedy is also called
“comedy of Manner”.when Sentimental comedy
begins to less popular and boring,that time anti-
sentimental comedy was created by “Oliver
Goldsmith”and “Richard Sheridan”.
❖ It is an artificial comedy, arose during 18th
century. The dramatist of this period wrote plays
according to middle class family & their interest.

3. Oliver Goldsmith
❖ Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)
❖ Pioneer of anti-sentimental
comedy
❖ First criticized sentimental
comedy in his essay “essay on
theatre”, as sentimental
comedy is not satisfied as
literary form of comedy.

4. SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER
❖ “She stoops to conquer” is a
play.
❖ It’s set in Britain just prior to
the American Revolution, so
we can also see some upper
class mentality in Britain at that
time.

5. Removing the
Mask
She stoops to
conquer reflects the
reality of the upper class.

6. Class Based Mentality
❖ This play base on upper class so,
definitely we can see class based
mentality of people.
❖ The decision that the characters make
are based on what class they are.
❖ i.e. Tony openly loves a low class
people but Marlow must hide his love
for kate as he thinks she is a poor
barmaid who belongs to good family
but no fortune.

7. Appearance and behavior
❖ In this play Goldsmith highlights major human factor or
element is one’s appearance and behavior.
❖ Today we believes that by someone's behavior we can’t
identify his real nature as who he is, yet many characters
in the play are be defrauded to a character’s behavior.
❖ Marlow and Hasting treated Mr. Hardcastle cruelly
because they think him the landlord of an inn, and
confused by his behavior, which seems forward.
❖ Throughout the play the characters assume that they
understood someone's behavior but actually it's not alike

8. Writer’s Aim
❖ Though this play we can see
Goldsmith’s aims to reintroduce the
audience to the “Laughing
Comedy”that derived from history of
comedy but, it's aims is gives us pure
laugh as a audience.
❖ This type of comedy stands in contrast
with the “ Sentimental comedy”,
because sentimental comedy is full of
moral preaching and tears.

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