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Commentator: Elizabeth Inchbald
THE BEAUX STRATAGEM;
A COMEDY, IN FIVE ACTS; BY GEORGE FARQUHAR, ESQ.
AS PERFORMED AT THE THEATRES ROYAL, DRURY LANE AND COVENT GARDEN.
WITH REMARKS BY MRS. INCHBALD.
LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME, PATERNOSTER ROW.
SAVAGE AND EASINGWOOD, PRINTERS, LONDON.
REMARKS.
It is an honour to the morality of the present age, that this most entertaining comedy is but seldom performed; and never, except some new pantomime, or other gaudy spectacle, be added, as an afterpiece, for the attraction of an audience.
The well drawn characters, happy incidents, and excellent dialogue, in "The Beaux Stratagem," are but poor atonement for that unrestrained contempt of principle which pervades every scene. Plays of this kind are far more mischievous than those, which preserve less appearance of delicacy. Every auditor and reader shrinks from those crimes, which are recommended in unseemly language, and from libertinism united with coarse manners; but in adorning vice with wit, and audacious rakes with the vivacity and elegance of men of fashion, youth, at least, will be decoyed into the snare of admiration.
Charmed with the spirit of Archer and Aimwell, the reader may not, perhaps, immediately perceive, that those two fine gentlemen are but arrant impostors; and that the lively, though pitiable Mrs. Sullen, is no other than a deliberate violator of her marriage vow. Highly delighted with every character, he will not, perhaps, at first observe, that all the wise and witty persons of this comedy are knaves, and all the honest people fools.
It is said, that this play was written in six weeks--it is more surprising still, that it was written by a dying man!
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