George Farquhar

George Farquhar (1677–1707) is one of the most successful and enduringly popular Restoration playwrights. His two masterpieces, The Recruiting Officer and The Beaux'' Stratagem, are still regularly performed today. Yet aspects of Farquhar''s biography, and in particular his Irish roots and family life, have remained obscure. This is the first study to treat Farquhar''s works as documents of migrat...