'this is a highly satisfactory edition ... And with its appearance, we can hope for some overdue reassessment of Farquhar. Farquhar is a more important and varied writer than anthologies reveal, and this edition represents scholarship of a high order. It will remain a much-used and valued tool long after the six trendy critical monographs you might buy instead have lapsed into datedness and desuetude. Unfashionable as such scholarly monuments have become, we should be grateful to Shirley Kenny for her years of editorial labour and to OUP for continuing to make such editions available.'Robert D. Hume, The Pennsylvania State University. Philological Quarterly

'this is a highly satisfactory edition ... And with its appearance, we can hope for some overdue reassessment of Farquhar. Farquhar is a more important and varied writer than anthologies reveal, and this edition represents scholarship of a high order. It will remain a much-used and valued tool long after the six trendy critical monographs you might buy instead have lapsed into datedness and desuetude. Unfashionable as such scholarly monuments have become, we should be grateful to Shirley Kenny for her years of editorial labour and to OUP for continuing to make such editions available.'Robert D. Hume, The Pennsylvania State University. Philological Quarterly