The Recruiting Officer; a Comedy. Marked With the Variations in the Manager's Book, at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, London, Printed for T. Lowndes

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This is a play by George Farquhar, first performed in 1706. It is a comedy of manners that satirizes the recruitment practices of the British army during the War of the Spanish Succession. The play follows the romantic entanglements of two officers who are sent to a small town to recruit soldiers for the army. This book is of interest to theatre scholars, historians of eighteenth-century England, and anyone who enjoys Restoration comedy.