Oliver Goldsmith as interpreted by Mel Brooks? This might have happened had Brooks' plans for his own film version of 'She Stoops to Conquer' been greenlighted.
That is one of the wonderful tidbits from Brooks' recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter (not to overlook mention of a Myron Cohen joke).
☕𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊'𝐒 𝐅𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓☕️
The Vicar of Wakefield
https://www.freenovelsonline.top/2025/11/the-vicar-of-wakefield.html
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« Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,
Adorns and cheers our way;
And still, as darker grows the night,
Emits a brighter ray. »
― Oliver Goldsmith
🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/764156873380380672/hope-like-the-gleaming-tapers-light-adorns-and
#EdmundBurke and #OliverGoldsmith silhouetted against the #Trinity frontage.
1st ever visit to the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond to see She Stoops To Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith, 2023 being its 250th anniversary. The set consisted of 3 chairs and a tree, the theatre was so tiny I had a member of the cast literally fall on top of me, yet it was the best theatre production I've seen this year.
#OliverGoldsmith #FreddieFox #TanyaReynolds #Richmond #Theatre
#SilentSunday #IrishPhilosophy
A stained glass window in memory of #OliverGoldsmith, depicting one of the characters from "The Deserted Village", the devoted clergyman. From
St Munis CoI, #Forgney Co. Longford, which lies south of #NewcastleWood.
Goldsmith is believed to have been born in the townland of #Pallas, just north of Newcastle Wood (best know as the home of #CenterParcsLongford).
The poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44292/the-deserted-village
Link to the original image https://www.gloine.ie/search/window/14994/w03?i=1
#OliverGoldsmith died #OTD 1774. Novelist, poet, playwright. He lived by his pen, also writing philosophical essays, including on aesthetics (as debated by Berkeley, Hutcheson, Burke) https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/04/04/goldsmith-coda/
Wrote first bio of #GeorgeBerkeley including this wild story from college days https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/06/23/berkeley-strung-out/
Wrote an early elegy for a selection of friends, including #EdmundBurke https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/04/04/here-lies-edmund/
The original "Citizen of the World" https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-95900-9_3
#OliverGoldsmith was born (probably in #Pallas, near where Centerparc Longford is now) probably on 10 Nov 1728. An alumnus of #TCD, he lived by his writing: novelist, playwright, poet, reviewer, essayist. His work included philosophical content including the review of #EdmundBurke's theory of #aesthetics described here https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/04/04/goldsmith-coda/
Goldsmith's biography in #DIB https://www.dib.ie/biography/goldsmith-oliver-a3516
Image: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goldsmith.jpg
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