''The Inconstant, or the Way to Win Him'' is a 1702 play by the Irish writer

George Farquhar George Farquhar (1677The explanation for the dual birth year appears in Louis A. Strauss, ed., A Discourse Upon Comedy, The Recruiting Officer, and The Beaux’ Stratagem by George Farquhar' (Boston: D.C. Heath & Co., 1914), p. v. Strauss notes ...

. It was a reworking of the Jacobean comedy ''

The Wild Goose Chase ''The Wild Goose Chase'' is a late Jacobean stage play, a comedy written by John Fletcher, first performed in 1621. It is often classed among Fletcher's most effective and best-constructed plays; Edmund Gosse called it "one of the brightest a ...

'' by John Fletcher. A success, the play was revived a number of times during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Despite its popularity, the play was later criticised for its similarities to Fletcher's earlier work with

Leigh Hunt James Henry Leigh Hunt (19 October 178428 August 1859), best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet. Hunt co-founded '' The Examiner'', a leading intellectual journal expounding radical principles. He was the centr ...

commenting it was "neither more or less Fletcher's play, with the poetry taken out".Moore p.195

References

Bibliography

* Moore, Helen. ''Amadis in English: A Study in the Reading of Romance''. Oxford University Press, 2020.

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* 1702 plays Plays by George Farquhar West End plays Restoration comedy {{play-stub