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Title: Recruiting Officer
Author: George Farquhar
Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers
Length: 2 hrs 12 mins
Language: English
Release date: 1/9/2017
Publisher: LibriVox
Genres: Audio Theatre, Drama
Publisher's Summary:
The author was himself a recruiting officer, and possibly gathered all the materials for this play on the very spot where he has placed his sceneShrewsbury. He has dedicated the piece "to all friends round the Wrekin," and has thanked the inhabitants of the town for that cheerful hospitality, which made, he adds, "the recruiting service, to some men the greatest fatigue on earth, to me the greatest pleasure in the world." The life of Farquhar was full of adventures.As a student, he was expelled from the college of Dublin, for adventuring profane wit upon a sacred theme, given to him by his tutor for his exercise. As an actor, he forsook the stage in grief and horror, on having unknowingly made use of a real sword, instead of a counterfeit one, by which he wounded a brother performer, with whom he had to fence in a tragedy, nearly to the loss of his life. As a dramatic writer, Farquhar was eminently successful; and in his military capacity, he was ever honoured and belovedwhether fighting with a great army in Flanders, or recruiting with a small party in Shropshire. (Mrs Inchbald (In preface to the publication))
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Title: Recruiting Officer
Author: George Farquhar
Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers
Length: 2 hrs 12 mins
Language: English
Release date: 1/9/2017
Publisher: LibriVox
Genres: Audio Theatre, Drama
Publisher's Summary:
The author was himself a recruiting officer, and possibly gathered all the materials for this play on the very spot where he has placed his sceneShrewsbury. He has dedicated the piece "to all friends round the Wrekin," and has thanked the inhabitants of the town for that cheerful hospitality, which made, he adds, "the recruiting service, to some men the greatest fatigue on earth, to me the greatest pleasure in the world." The life of Farquhar was full of adventures.As a student, he was expelled from the college of Dublin, for adventuring profane wit upon a sacred theme, given to him by his tutor for his exercise. As an actor, he forsook the stage in grief and horror, on having unknowingly made use of a real sword, instead of a counterfeit one, by which he wounded a brother performer, with whom he had to fence in a tragedy, nearly to the loss of his life. As a dramatic writer, Farquhar was eminently successful; and in his military capacity, he was ever honoured and belovedwhether fighting with a great army in Flanders, or recruiting with a small party in Shropshire. (Mrs Inchbald (In preface to the publication))