Tony has stolen the jewels, but Constance doesn't know and continues to beg her aunt for them.
Kate asks her father for the chance to show him that Marlow is more than both believe. Where Hardcastle is shocked at his impertinence, Kate is disappointed to have seen only modesty. Tony and Hastings decide together that Tony will steal the jewels for Hastings and Constance, so that he can be rid of his mother's pressure to marry Constance, whom he doesn't love.Īct III opens with Hardcastle and Kate each confused with the side of Marlow they saw. She is nevertheless attracted to him, and decides to try and draw out his true character. When he has his first meeting with Kate, she is dressed well, and hence drives him into a debilitating stupor because of his inability to speak to modest women.
Marlow has a bizarre tendency to speak with exaggerated timidity to "modest" women, while speaking in lively and hearty tones to women of low-class. They decide they will try to get her jewels and elope together. However, they decide to keep the truth from Marlow, because they think revealing it will upset him and ruin the trip. Constance finds Hastings, and reveals to him that Tony must have played a trick. Hardcastle expects Marlow to be a polite young man, and is shocked at the behavior. When Marlow and Hastings arrive, they are impertinent and rude with Hardcastle, whom they think is a landlord and not a host (because of Tony's trick). When Marlow and Hastings (Constance's beloved) arrive at the pub, lost on the way to Hardcastle's, Tony plays a practical joke by telling the two men that there is no room at the pub and that they can find lodging at the old inn down the road (which is of course Hardcastle's home).Īct II sees the plot get complicated. Tony's problem is also that he is a drunk and a lover of low living, which he shows when the play shifts to a pub nearby. The problem is that neither Tony nor Constance loves the other, and in fact Constance has a beloved, who will be traveling to the house that night with Marlow. Hardcastle's spoiled son from an earlier marriage, Tony Lumpkin. Hardcastle's niece Constance is in the old woman's care, and has her small inheritance (consisting of some valuable jewels) held until she is married, hopefully to Mrs. Kate is very close to her father, so much so that she dresses plainly in the evenings (to suit his conservative tastes) and fancifully in the mornings for her friends. Hardcastle's old friend and a possible suitor to his daughter Kate. Hardcastle live in an old house that resembles an inn, and they are waiting for the arrival of Marlow, son of Mr.
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Goldsmith can remedy this problem through the play about to be presented.Īct I is full of set-up for the rest of the play. She Stoops to Conquer opens with a prologue in which an actor mourns the death of the classical low comedy at the altar of sentimental, "mawkish" comedy.
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