This is a vivacious and farcical play, but not very memorable for me. At times I had the feeling I had read it before, probably in college, but I had almost entirely forgotten it. The setting is the English countryside. The inciting incident is a practical joke. Two young men are told that a private house—a house they have been invited to visit— is an inn, so when they arrive, they order dinner, put the chatty landlord (master of the house) in his place, and mistake his daughter for a barmaid. The instigator of the joke is Tony Lumpkin, the spoiled and roughish son of the mistress of the house. Like some of Shakespeare’s fools, he has the juiciest part in the play. This play is full of dramatic irony—the audience knows more than the characters. It is light and fun, one of the first romantic comedies. The best I can say of it is that it never becomes sentimental, always stays light.