George Farquhar.

George Farquhar (1678 - April 29, 1707) was an Irish dramatist. Born in Londonderry, the son of a clergyman, he attended Trinity College, Dublin, but left without any qualifications, possibly to join a roving troupe of actors. His career was blossoming, when an accident on stage during a performance of The Indian Emperor by John Dryden, in which he wounded a fellow actor in a sword fight, caused him to quit the stage. Image File history File links (PD by age) FYI this has an Encyclopedia Britannica watermark in the lower left corner. ... Image File history File links (PD by age) FYI this has an Encyclopedia Britannica watermark in the lower left corner. ... Events August 10 - Treaty of Nijmegen ends the Dutch War. ... April 29 is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (120th in leap years). ... Events January 1 - John V is crowned King of Portugal March 26 - The Act of Union becomes law, making the separate Kingdoms of England and Scotland into one country, the Kingdom of Great Britain. ... A dramatist is an author of dramatic compositions, usually plays. ... Derry or Londonderry (in Irish , Doire Cholm Chille or Doire), often called the Maiden City, is a city in Northern Ireland. ... The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin or more commonly Trinity College, Dublin (TCD) was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I, and is the only constituent college of the University of Dublin, Irelands oldest university. ... John Dryden (August 19, 1631 – May 12, 1700) was an influential English poet, literary critic, and playwright. ...

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The Constant Couple was written when he was only twenty. The unexpected success of the production convinced him to try his hand at writing again with Sir Henry Wildair and The Inconstant, or the Way to Win Him. Farquhar was rapidly gaining a following, and in 1702 married someone he believed would be a wealthy patroness. When it turned out, however, that she was poor too, he set himself to work to support his new family. It was in this period that he produced The Stage Coach and The Twin Rivals. He remained impoverished, and decided to enter the army, which provided material for one of his best-known plays, The Recruiting Officer (1706). Soon afterwards came The Beaux' Stratagem, which was written while Farquhar lived in Lichfield, Staffordshire. But the author was in poor health, and died two months after its first production. The last work, completed as he was dying, is considered by many to be Farquhar's best. It was in The Twin Rivals, however, that his most frequently quoted line, "Necessity, the mother of invention," appears. Events March 8 - William III died; Princess Anne Stuart becomes Queen Anne of England, Scotland and Ireland. ... Events March 27 - Concluding that Emperor Iyasus I of Ethiopia had abdicated by retiring to a monastery, a council of high officials appoint Tekle Haymanot I Emperor of Ethiopia May 23 - Battle of Ramillies November 5 - The Dublin Gazette publishes its first edition. ... Lichfield Cathedral June 2005 Lichfield is a small city in Staffordshire, 110 miles northwest of London and 14 miles north of Birmingham. ... Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. ...