George Farquhar

(1677-1707)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Farquhar, George, 1677?-1707 NRA: Farquhar, George (1677-1707) Dramatist DNB: Farquhar, George (1676/7-1707), playwright LBT ID: GeFarqu1707 VIAF ID: 61545511 LOC ID: n50011055	B/BAP: 1677 DIED: 1707-05
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Irish playwright, author of two repertory plays, The Recruiting Officer (1706) and The Beaux Stratagem (1707).
REFERENCES TO George Farquhar: Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 2 April 1823 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1821 Found 1: ¶ 15 Life of Byron: 1823 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Byron’s Letters and Journals” in The Southern Review 7 (May 1831) 1-42 Found 1: ¶ 29 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. II” in New Monthly Magazine 79 (April 1847) 515-22 Found 1: ¶ 6 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. V 1798 Found 1: ¶ 42 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1825 Found 1: ¶ 5