Oliver Goldsmith

An Irish author.

The Vicar of Wakefield

Miss Arabella Wilmot is going to marry George. The engagement is broken off after the Vicar’s family loses their money. Mr. Burchell saves Sophia from drowning, and the family hears bad things about the landlord Squire Thornhill. Olivia flees with Squire Thornhill. They go to a dinner at Mr. Arnold’s.

She Stoops to Conquer

Hardcastle wants his daughter Kate to marry Charles Marlow. Charles is shy though, and Kate doesn’t want to marry him. Charles and his friend George Hastings go to a bar. Tony Lumpkin convinces them that the Hardcastle’s house is an inn. He gets there, and flirts with Kate dressed as a maid. Hastings finds his true love Constance Neville, who is engaged to Tony. They don’t like each other, and break it off. Tony’s mother is thrown into a horse pond. Everyone lives happily ever after.