This edition of a familiar and ever-delightful classic of the stage is intendedto satisfy two current demands in the teach­ing of secondary English. It willmake available for school use the most successful and the most important,historically, of Goldsmith's plays. It will thus afford to pupils and teachersa wider field of choice, to suit their various and varying tastes. It will alsoprovide material for the more reasoned study of its period and its type. Allwho read Macaulay's "" Johnson"", or the ""Selections"" from Boswell, or Burke's""Speech on Con­ciliation"", or Thackeray's ""English Humorists"", as well as thosewho wish a text illustrative of Johnson's period in the history of Englishliterature or English drama, will here find their needs supplied