She
Stoops to Conquer
From the Playbill
– Director’s Notes:
 Goldsmith,
a man whose life was lived in disorder, was born of
a large impoverished family. He studied unsuccessfully
for the clergy, law and medicine in Dublin, Edinburgh,
Leiden and Padua. In 1756 his wanderings brought him
to the London of Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds,
Edmund Burke and the great actor/producer David Garrick.
Goldsmith gained some success with
the publication of an Enquiry into the Present State
of Polite Learning in Europe. In 1764 he became a
founding member along with Johnson, Burke and Reynolds
of the Turk’s Head Club. By all reports he was an
odd duck and like Johnson, a most unsightly man. In
one sketch he appears to possess a skull not unlike
a Neanderthal. But his tongue rarely failed him.
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