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Complete summary of Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Matchmaker.
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A widow who brokers marriages and other transactions in Yonkers, New York at the turn of the 20th century, she sets her sights on local merchant Horace Vandergelder, who has hired her to find him a wife.
- Thornton Wilder
- 1955
The Matchmaker tells the story of a rich widower, Horace Vandergelder, who employs the services of a matchmaker, Dolly Levi, to find him a wife.
Wilder’s uproarious farce about love and money, stars the irrepressible busybody, Dolly Gallagher Levi, who inspired the Broadway musical, Hello, Dolly! Through Dolly’s subtle machinations, several unlikely couples come together to find happiness in 19th-century New York. Overview.
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CRITICAL OVERVIEW. CRITICISM. SOURCES. FURTHER READING. Thornton Wilder’s play The Matchmaker is a farce in the old-fashioned sense.
